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Nature Quotes

Last updated: October 19, 2023

38 Nature Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Every summer morning seems to be the first in the world. Each twilight seems to be the last, solemn agony, announced at sunset by a final glow that darkens every hue. The sea is ultramarine, the road the color of clotted blood, the beach yellow. Everything disappears with the green sun; an hour later the dunes are bathed in moonlight. Then there are incomparable nights under a rain of stars.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Nature, Stars, beauty, Summer, Summer Morning, Twilight, Dunes, Sunset
“I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.”
— Matthew Stadler, Where We Live Now: An Annotated Reader
Tagged: Nature, Nostalgia, Surfing, Happiness, Zen, Ocean, beach
“They are incomprehensible, the things of this earth. The lure of waters. The lure of fruits.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz
Tagged: Earth, Fruit, Water, Lure, Nature, The Way of the Earth, Ocean, Natural Worlds
“I feel like all of my best days are spent on crop tops.”
— acid-collars, Crop Tops
Tagged: Nature, Celebrating Life, Wanderlust, Summer
“Animals are here with us, not for us.”
— Jenny Brown, The Lucky Ones
Tagged: Nature, humanity, Vegan, Animals, Perspective
“Nature has been far more clever at connectionism than have we. Her mechanisms for information swapping, data processing, and collective creation are more intricate and agile than anything the finest computer theoreticians have yet foreseen.”
— Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Tagged: Agile, Connectionism, Evolution, Movement, Nature
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Tagged: Nature, Kiss The Earth, Feet, Walking, Walk
“The sight of nature makes me rejoice like a child.”
— Marie Curie, Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie
Tagged: Nature, Child
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature
“There are some places so beautiful that just being there feels like falling in love. The further this road stretches away from anything manmade, the prettier everything gets. Little cotton-ball clouds cling tight to the green hills when we arrive at our red cabin near dusk.”
— Jim Goad, Potatoes on the Moon: I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho
Tagged: Nature, Beauty of Nature
“Be like the flowing river, 
Silent in the night. 
Be not afraid of the dark. 
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. 
If there are clouds in the sky, 
Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. 
So, gladly reflect them too, 
In your own tranquil depths”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Nature, River, Paulo Coelho, Light, Depth, Reflection, Contemplation
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
— Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg: Stories
Tagged: Nature, Awe Of Nature, Being A Child, positive, Spring, Youth
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.”
— John Steinbeck, Travels Withou
Tagged: Nature, Montana, States, Love, In Love With Places
“Outside the window
Sky and earth exchange silver.
In the moonlight I forget I’m human.”
— Wang Xiaoni, White Moon
Tagged: Moon, Nature, Existential Crisis, Poetry
“The times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw as a sport as it gets.”
— Kelly Slater, via Tumblr
Tagged: Surfing, Nature, Deep Thoughts, Sports, Fitness
“The sky is mauve lucite. The light lies intact and folded. You can anticipate the wind. A slight cloud drifts contrary to the planet.”
— Lisa Roberston, The Weather
Tagged: Descriptions of the Sky, Nature
“I bought a bicycle and pedaled all over town, trying to connect with the real New York City. But no matter how much time I spent in Central Park, to me living in the city felt like living indoors. I needed to be someplace where I could feel a strong connection to the earth.”
— Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Tagged: Nature, New York City, Rural Vs. Urban
“Woods are filled with the music of birds, and all Nature is laughing under the glorious influence of Summer”
— Charles Lanman, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 6
Tagged: Beauty Of Life, Wanderlust, Lust For Life, Nature, Summer
“A green world, a scene of green deep with light blues, the greens made deep by those blues. The air we breathe is freshly sweet, and warm, as though with berries. We are here. We are here. The earth is beautiful beyond all change.”
— William Bronk, The World, The Worldless
Tagged: Green, Blue, Nature
“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
— Isaac Newton, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother's face.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
Tagged: How To Think, Nature
“Do not go to human civilization. Stay in the forest! Go rather even to the animals! Be as I am—a bear among bears, a bird among birds. ”
— Fredriech Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Nature, Birds, Bears
“Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.”
— Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Tagged: Nature, Why We Need Nature
“On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Countryside, Patchwork, Nature
“"It’s the kind of night where you know what the moon feels like,it’s the kind of night where you realize just how much stardust runs through your veins,it’s the kind of night where the words flow out of you as if you’ve never written before,it’s the kind of night where you finally find yourself again,it’s the kind of night where you remember what it means to look forward to morning."”
— http://inkonapagepoetry.tumblr.com/, Kind of Night
Tagged: Poetry, Nature, Words
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
— E. E Cummings, Complete Poems
Tagged: Green, Spirit of Sumemr, Yes, Nature, Natural
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Tagged: Nature, Ocean, Sea, Water
“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.”
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir,
Tagged: Fresh Air, Nature, Pure
“Already desiring to explore inside and out 
the divine forest, so dense and alive, 
which tempered the new day before my eyes, 
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country 
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Tagged: Forests, Nature
“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”
— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder
Tagged: Philosophy, Poetry, Nature
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
Tagged: Earth, Bare feet, Wind, Nature
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
— Michelangelo, Michelangelo Notebooks
Tagged: Nature
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright, The Wright Style: Re-Creating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright
Tagged: Nature, Study Nature, Nature Never Fails
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Tagged: Nature, Fields, Snow
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”
— Mark Twain, Roughing It
Tagged: Angels, Purity, Fine, Thoughts, Heaven, Nature, Peace, peacefulness, Life