Nature Quotes

"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."

John Muir

"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own."

John Muir

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf."

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves."

Jane Goodall

"Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."

Aldo Leopold

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals."

Henry Beston

"The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey."

Wendell Berry

"Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there."

Annie Dillard

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

Loren Eiseley

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

John Burroughs

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

Luther Burbank

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

Gertrude Jekyll

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature."

Alfred Austin

"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener."

Thomas Jefferson

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Our motto, as you know, is to live according to nature."

Seneca

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."

Wangari Maathai