Nature And Environment Quotes

• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Experience, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Patience, Nature, Garden

  40 Copy quote

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

  Claude Monet

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Simple, Men, Earth Life

  Reader's Digest, July 1972.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Environmental, World

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.119, Oxford University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Nature, Knows, Universe

  24 Copy quote

• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Joy, Cooking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

  Johannes Kepler

  Nature, Science, Simplicity

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, (p. 98), 1920.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Garden, Luxury

  73 Copy quote

• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  16 Copy quote

• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

  81 Copy quote

• The earth has music for those who listen.

  George Santayana

  Music, Encouragement, Art

  21 Copy quote

• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  150 Copy quote

• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• In wildness is the preservation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Camping, World, Transcendentalism

  "Walking" (1862)

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Nature, Men, Lakes

  120 Copy quote

• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Men, Air

  Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

  44 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  111 Copy quote

  Show source

• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  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.351, Library of America

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Stars, Believe

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

  22 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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.

  165 Copy quote

  Show source