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Nature Quotes


For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

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.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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.

I am two with nature.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.