Nature Quotes

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the pow...

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympath...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes e...

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and ...

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature m...

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors o...

To be able to see and study undisturbed the processes of nature--I like better the old Biblical phra...

We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been sa...

And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it ...

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, ...

A year indoors is a journey along a paper calendar; a year in outer nature is the accomplishment of ...

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

And what of Nature itself, you say--that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it i...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

I began to reflect on Nature's eagerness to sow life everywhere, to fill the planet with it, to crow...

My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend ...

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more c...

The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we s...

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perh...

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one...

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithful...

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to th...

To be awake is to be alive.

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, havin...

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech...

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water w...

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifull...

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless...

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their ...

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-ho...

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seeme...

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a...

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in...

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, ...

This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff ...

John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running o...

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, havin...

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now se...

O Prince, our eyes contemplate with admiration and transmit to the soul the wonderful and varied spe...

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign your...

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell an...

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle,...

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence...

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

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense n...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me b...

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have ...

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as t...

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the ...

All Nature wears one universal grin.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient lite...

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse...

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison wit...

The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of...

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a s...

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

I send thee, love, this upland flower I foundWhile wandering lonely with o'erclouded heart,Hid in a ...

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a...

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces...

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for...

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that s...

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue...

On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ...

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, foll...

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all ki...

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens...

Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men...

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, hum...

You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We a...

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For th...

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the ...

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long sinc...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...