Nature Quotes
Quotes about nature and the healing beauty of the wild. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest nature quotes ever written — from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Socrates, John Milton and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
A healthy body and soul come from harmony with nature and oneself.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.
The earth laughs in flowers.
Winter is the season in which nature changes its tune.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Now came still evening on, and twilight grey had in her sober livery all things clad.
Ask the animals, and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
A tree is known by its fruit.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
In summer, the song sings itself.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild, with a faery, hand in hand.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.