85 Nature quotes that'll inspire to love and value its beauty. Here are the best nature quotes from famous people that will enlighten you to love and care for mother nature. Nature is the natural and physical world that includes plants, animals, bodies of water, landscape, and every living thing that exists on our planet. May these short inspirational nature quotes become a mind and eye-opener for everyone to appreciate the beauty of nature, its significance to humanity, and by loving nature, surely we will get a lot of good things that nature can provide us. Share these mother nature quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. - Jules Renard
2. If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent van Gogh
3. 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
4. Take a quiet walk with mother nature. It will nurture your mind, body, and soul. - A.D. Williams
5. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
6. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
7. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson
8. The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. - Edward Abbey
9. The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? - David Attenborough
10. For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. - Martin Luther
11. To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen
12. Within nature lies the cure for humanity. - Anonymous
13. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle
15. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not to man the less, but Nature more. - Lord Byron
16. I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. - Pete Hamill
17. Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. - Terence McKenna
18. In the woods is perpetual youth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustain us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. - Edward Abbey
20. Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. - Max Planck
22. In the trees, in the breeze, seek nature’s peace and bliss. - Anonymous
23. I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. - Gustave Flaubert
24. Go into the wilderness. There you will find your own revelations. - Roxana Jones
25. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir
26. It’s hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself. - Steve Maraboli
27. One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?. - Rachel Carson
28. The goal is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. - Joseph Campbell
29. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
30. And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - Anonymous
31. I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. - Leonardo Da Vinci
33. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. - Rachel Carson
34. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. - William Hazlett
35. Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
36. Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. - Gretel Ehrlich
37. I am glad I will not be young in the future without wilderness. - Aldo Leopold
38. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
39. 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
40. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. - Rainer Maria Rilke
41. If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. - Maggie Stiefvater
42. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein
43. There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. - John Muir
44. I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. - Charles Baudelaire
45. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jim Carter
46. In every walk in with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
47. My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. - Claude Monet
48. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton
49. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. - Lao Tzu
50. Not just beautiful, though the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. - Haruki Murakami
51. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau
52. Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli
53. Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. - Chad Sugg
54. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau
55. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke
56. There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. - Jo Walton
57. Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. - John Muir
58. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nerval
59. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
60. The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. - Jack Kerouac
61. If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. - Alex Trebek
62. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock
63. If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. - Rainer Maria Rilke
64. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
65. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
66. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. - Chinese Proverb
67. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D. H. Lawrence
68. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin
69. The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. - Albert Einstein
70. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. - John Muir
71. Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. - Brooke Hampton
72. Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L. Wolfe Gilbert
73. Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping. - Hubert Reeves
74. For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
75. We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. - John Muir
76. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. - Linda Hogan
77. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. - Wallace Stegner
78. If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they would live a lot differently. - Anonymous
79. Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle
80. Wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau
81. Trees're always a relief, after people. - David Mitchell
82. To find the universal elements enough, to find the air and the water exhilarating, to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter, to be thrilled by the stars at night, to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring, these are some of the rewards of the simple life. - John Burroughs
83. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. - Andy Warhol
84. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. - Rainer Maria Rilke
85. But man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. - Rachel Carson
1. On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. - Jules Renard
2. If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent van Gogh
3. 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
4. Take a quiet walk with mother nature. It will nurture your mind, body, and soul. - A.D. Williams
5. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
6. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
7. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. - Rachel Carson
8. The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. - Edward Abbey
9. The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? - David Attenborough
11. To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen
12. Within nature lies the cure for humanity. - Anonymous
13. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle
15. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not to man the less, but Nature more. - Lord Byron
16. I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. - Pete Hamill
17. Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. - Terence McKenna
18. In the woods is perpetual youth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustain us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. - Edward Abbey
20. Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. - Max Planck
22. In the trees, in the breeze, seek nature’s peace and bliss. - Anonymous
23. I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. - Gustave Flaubert
24. Go into the wilderness. There you will find your own revelations. - Roxana Jones
25. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir
26. It’s hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself. - Steve Maraboli
27. One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?. - Rachel Carson
28. The goal is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. - Joseph Campbell
29. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
30. And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - Anonymous
31. I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32. Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. - Leonardo Da Vinci
33. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. - Rachel Carson
34. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. - William Hazlett
35. Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
36. Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. - Gretel Ehrlich
37. I am glad I will not be young in the future without wilderness. - Aldo Leopold
38. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. - John Muir
39. 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
40. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. - Rainer Maria Rilke
41. If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. - Maggie Stiefvater
42. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein
43. There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. - John Muir
44. I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. - Charles Baudelaire
45. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jim Carter
46. In every walk in with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
47. My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. - Claude Monet
48. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton
49. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. - Lao Tzu
50. Not just beautiful, though the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. - Haruki Murakami
51. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau
52. Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli
53. Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. - Chad Sugg
54. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau
55. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke
56. There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. - Jo Walton
57. Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. - John Muir
58. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nerval
59. I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
60. The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. - Jack Kerouac
61. If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. - Alex Trebek
62. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock
63. If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. - Rainer Maria Rilke
64. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
65. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
66. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. - Chinese Proverb
67. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D. H. Lawrence
68. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin
69. The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see. - Albert Einstein
70. Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. - John Muir
71. Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. - Brooke Hampton
72. Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. - L. Wolfe Gilbert
73. Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping. - Hubert Reeves
74. For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
75. We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. - John Muir
76. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. - Linda Hogan
77. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. - Wallace Stegner
78. If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they would live a lot differently. - Anonymous
79. Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle
80. Wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau
81. Trees're always a relief, after people. - David Mitchell
82. To find the universal elements enough, to find the air and the water exhilarating, to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter, to be thrilled by the stars at night, to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring, these are some of the rewards of the simple life. - John Burroughs
83. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. - Andy Warhol
84. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. - Rainer Maria Rilke
85. But man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. - Rachel Carson