Inspirational Quotes on Nature about Life & Its Natural Beauty

Inspirational Nature Quotes on Life and Its Natural Beauty

  • “Sunlight is painting.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • “Autumn’s the mellow time.” —William Allingham
  • “Nature does nothing in vain.” —Aristotle
  • “Colors are the smiles of nature.” —Leigh Hunt
  • “Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” —Hippocrates
  • “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” —Mark Twain
  • “Behind every cloud is another cloud.” —Judy Garland
  • “Land really is the best art.” —Andy Warhol
  • “There is no forgiveness in nature.” —Ugo Betti
  • “Nature can do more than physicians.” —Oliver Cromwell
  • “Nature is the art of God.” —Dante Alighieri
  • “The earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” —e. e. Cummings
  • “Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” —Duke Ellington
  • “The mountains are calling and I must go.” —John Muir
  • “Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.” —Robert Delaunay
  • “All nature is but art unknown to thee.” —Alexander Pope
  • “Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” —Honore de Balzac
  • “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” —Gerard de Nerval
  • “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” —Theodore Roethke
  • “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” —William Wordsworth
  • “The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “The course of Nature is the art of God.” —Edward Young
  • “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” —Mattie Stepanek
  • “The good man is the friend of all living things.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.” —John Donne
  • “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” —Albert Einstein
  • “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” —Aristotle
  • “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” —Vladimir Nabokov
  • “The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” —Euclid
  • “A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.” —Joshua Reynolds
  • “Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.” —Nicolas Cage
  • “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” —Albert Camus
  • “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “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
  • “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” —Henri Matisse
  • “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” —Robert Green
  • “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • “Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.” —Emily Carr
  • “On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” —Jules Renard
  • “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” —William Wordsworth
  • “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” —John Muir
  • “How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.” —Emily Dickinson
  • “There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” —Edouard Manet
  • “You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.” —Christian Dior
  • “My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” —Aldous Huxley
  • “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” —Hal Borland
  • “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” —E. O. Wilson
  • “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” —Richard Bach
  • “Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” —Samuel Butler
  • “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” —Alex Trebek
  • “I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.” —Alfred Sisley
  • “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” —Hans Christian Andersen
  • “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” —Jacques Cousteau
  • “Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.” —Henri Rousseau
  • “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” —Walt Whitman
  • “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman
  • “When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.” —Joseph Joubert
  • “We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” —William Hazlitt
  • “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” —Theodore Roethke
  • “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
  • “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” —Carl Sagan
  • “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” —D. H. Laurence
  • “In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.” —Charles Lindbergh
  • “I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.” —Antoine Lavoisier
  • “During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” —John James Audubon
  • “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” —Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • “I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” —Walt Disney
  • “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” —Jane Austen
  • “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” —Bill Watterson
  • “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  • “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” —Robert Frost
  • “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” —Khalil Gibran
  • “To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” —Helen Keller
  • “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” —Dag Hammarskjold
  • “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” —Alice Walker
  • “I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” —Leo Buscaglia
  • “As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.” —Thomas Guthrie
  • “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” —Edward Abbey
  • “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” —Langston Hughes
  • “I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.” —Cote de Pablo
  • “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” —E. M. Forster
  • “When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion? Then I go out and paint the stars.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  • “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” —George Eliot
  • “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” —John Muir
  • “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.” —John Muir
  • “It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” —Frederick Douglass
  • “Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” —John Muir
  • “Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “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 King Jr.
  • “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” —Henry Beston
  • “The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.” —Wallace Stevens
  • “I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” —Mother Teresa

Nature Beauty Quotes and Sayings

  • “Earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Water is the driving force of all nature.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” —Natalie Angier
  • “The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” —Elizabeth Lawrence
  • “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
  • “If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  • “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” —Rabindranath Tagore
  • “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” —Charles Dickens
  • “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” —Willa Cather
  • “The rich fire of the orange sunset gloriously announces the coming night.” —Susan S. Florence
  • “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” —Walt Whitman
  • “Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” —George Washington Carver
  • “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” —Amit Ray
  • “I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” —Ansel Adams
  • “Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little; she achieves her work.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.” —Anthony Douglas Williams
  • “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
  • “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.” —Plautis
  • “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” —John Burroughs
  • “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” —Albert Einstein
  • “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” —John Updike
  • “The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.” —Blaise Pascal
  • “I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.” —James Dean
  • “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” —L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • “Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” —Rachel Carson
  • “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment.” —Jane Austin
  • “Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.” —Thomas Kincade
  • “Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will bebare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” —Anton Chekhov
  • “The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.” —Helen Garner
  • “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.” —George Washington Carver
  • “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” —Henry David Thoreau
  • “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, and snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” —John Ruskin
  • “Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.” —John Muir
  • “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” —John Lubbock
  • “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.” —Orison Swett Marden
  • “Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” —George Washington Carver
  • “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” —John Muir