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Nature Quotes


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.

Jean Paul
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

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

Doug Larson
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
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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

John Muir
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Ruth Bernhard
The groves were God's first temples.

William C. Bryant
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

William Ellery Channing
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Eric Berne
The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir
The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Henry Ellis