Nature Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
John Burroughs,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
John Muir,
Henry David Thoreau
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| If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. |
| - Aristotle |
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| To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. |
| - John Berger |
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| I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. |
| - Wendell Berry |
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| Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. |
| - William Blake |
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| Nature is the art of God. |
| - Thomas Browne |
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| 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 |
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| I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. |
| - John Burroughs |
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| 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 |
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| Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. |
| - Rachel Carson |
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| I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. |
| - George Washington Carver |
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| Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. |
| - George Washington Carver |
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| I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. |
| - Abraham Cowley |
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| 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 |
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| The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. |
| - E.E. Cummings |
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| How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nature hates calculators. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. |
| - John Fowles |
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| 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 |
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| Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
| - Kahlil Gibran |
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| Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. |
| - John Heywood |
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| Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. |
| - Napoleon Hill |
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| There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| The poetry of the earth is never dead. |
| - John Keats |
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| To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. |
| - Helen Keller |
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| After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. |
| - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. |
| - Charles A. Lindbergh |
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| Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. |
| - James Russell Lowell |
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| God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. |
| - Martin Luther |
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| Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. |
| - John Muir |
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| How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! |
| - John Muir |
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| 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 |
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| Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. |
| - John Muir |
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| Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. |
| - John Muir |
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| I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? |
| - Carl Sandburg |
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| And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| 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. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. |
| - Lao Tzu |
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| I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. |
| - Alice Walker |
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| I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. |
| - Thornton Wilder |
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