It’s no secret that nature can be a source of awe and inspiration. From rolling meadows to crashing waves, the beauty of nature has captivated us since the dawn of time. To celebrate this wonder, we’ve compiled a list of the 101 Best Inspiring Quotes about Nature. From the words of renowned authors and poets, to the musings of unknown philosophers, these quotes will remind you to stop and appreciate the wonders of the natural world.
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Best Inspiring Quotes about Nature
- The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. —Claude Monet
- The earth is what we all have in common. —Wendell Berry
- The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. —Natalie Angier
- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno
- The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. —E. E. Cummings
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. —Robert Louis Stevenson
- Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. —George Santanaya
- 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
- Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. —Amit Ray
- Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. —Frank Lloyd Wright
- Leave the road, take the trails. —Pythagoras
- Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. —John Ruskin
- We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. —Native American proverb
- We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. —Albert Einstein
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. —Jane Austen
- Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. —Brooke Hampton
- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau
- Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. —Carl Sagan
- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. —William Shakespeare
- Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. —Gerard De Nerval
- I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax. —Richard Feynman
- Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. —John Burroughs
- Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. —L. Wolfe Gilbert
- The earth has music for those who listen. —William Shakespeare
- 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
- Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. —Isaac Newton
- Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. —David Attenborough
- Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. —Albert Einstein
- Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. —Michel de Montaigne
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. —Ansel Adams
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Short nature quotes
- If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. —Buddha
- 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
- If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. —Rainer Maria Rilke
- Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’ —Robin Williams
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. —Jimmy Carter
- I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. —Walt Whitman
- Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things. —Lao Tzu
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. —Frank Lloyd Wright
- Nature is loved by what is best in us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. —Gary Snyder
- Nature is the art of God. —Dante Alighieri
- Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. —Steve Maraboldi
- Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. —Gretel Ehrlich
- Going to the mountains is like going home. —John Muir
- Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another. —Edmund Burke
- Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. —John Muir
- To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. —Helen Keller
- There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. —Charlotte Eriksson
- Men argue. Nature acts. —Voltaire
- To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. —Mahatma Gandhi
- By discovering nature, you discover yourself. —Maxime Lagacé
- If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. —Laura Ingalls Wilder
- There are always flowers for those who want to see them. —Henri Matisse
- The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. —Joseph Campbell
- If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you. —Alex Trebek
- To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. —Emily Dickinson
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Beauty of Nature Quotes
- Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them. —Dogen
- The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. —Galileo Galilei
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. —Marie Curie
- Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. —Standing Bear
- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. —Walt Whitman
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. —Aristotle
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. —Robert Louis Stevenson
- I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. —Henry David Thoreau
- Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —Lao Tzu
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. —Henry van Dyke
- Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. —Winston Churchill
- Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. —Katrina Mayer
- Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. —Rachel Carson
- It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless. —Riccardo Bozzi
- Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. —Rachel Carson
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. —Blaise Pascal
- Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The earth laughs in flowers. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. —John Burroughs
- There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. —Rachel Carson
- The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. —Blaise Pascal
- Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. —Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. —Henry Miller
- The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. —D. H. Lawrence
- My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. —Aldous Huxley
- Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. —Khalil Gibran
- The Amen of nature is always a flower. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- The ocean is a mighty harmonist. —William Wordsworth
- Choose only one master—nature. —Rembrandt
- The poetry of the earth is never dead. —John Keats
- Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. —Henry David Thoreau
- 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
- Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. —Louie Schwartzberg
- Land really is the best art. —Andy Warhol
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way. —Aristotle
- In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. –Alice Walker
- Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. —Hans Christian Andersen
- A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. —James Russell Lowell
- Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. —Theodore Roethke
- Colors are the smiles of nature. —Leigh Hunt
- Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. —Langston Hughes
