Nature Quotes

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

"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."

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."

"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"Nature is wont to hide herself."

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower."

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

"Moonlight is sculpture."

"I am two with nature."

"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

"The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"Nature is not human hearted."

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder."

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"The view of Earth is spectacular."

"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."

"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

"Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne."