1,011 Quotes Regarding Nature


The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings

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

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

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

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

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

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

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison