Nature Quotes

"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity."

Chico Mendes

"To one who has been long in city pent, 'tis very sweet to look into the fair and open face of heaven."

John Keats

"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; my heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer."

Robert Burns

"And for all this, nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshness deep down things."

Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Bring me the sunset in a cup."

Emily Dickinson

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."

Robert Frost

"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Mary Oliver

"I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

Langston Hughes

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers."

Hermann Hesse

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

Lord Byron

"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, though to itself it only live and die."

William Shakespeare

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

Walt Whitman

"Into each life some rain must fall."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"This is the forest primeval."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

George Eliot

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

Hal Borland

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

Anne Bradstreet

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

John Steinbeck

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

Carl Sagan

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."

Richard P. Feynman

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

Jane Austen

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry van Dyke

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

E. B. White