Inspiring Nature Quotes - Page 2

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mother, Health, Men

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• My profession is to always find God in nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Profession, Nature Beauty

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• The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

  Claude Monet

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn.
  What would the world be, once bereft
  Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
  O Let them be left, wildness and wet:
  Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Weed, Nature, Long

  1881 'Inversnaid'.

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• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Teacher, Book, Rivers

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov Short Stories v2: Classic Russia Literature”, p.170, 谷月社

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• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfect

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• He is the richest who is content with the least.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Greek, Contentment

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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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

  Nature, Moving, Tree

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• We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Land, Environmental

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Positive, Summer

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296

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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

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Healing, Wilderness

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• The earth has music for those who listen.

  George Santayana

  Music, Encouragement, Art

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• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

  John Burroughs

  Music, Nature, Health

  John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”

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