Whether you’re a flaneur looking for inspiration or an entrepreneur seeking a new perspective, getting away from the city and into the wild can be eye-opening. From Carl Jung’s thoughts on anima mundi to Henry David Thoreau‘s musings on nature’s healing powers, these quotes about nature hold plenty of great insights here for anyone who wants to get in touch with their creative side. So if you’re feeling stuck, try spending some time outside – you may be surprised at what you find!
Quote About Nature
In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
Claude Monet
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity’s heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.
J. Drew Lanham
Choose only one master—nature.
Rembrandt
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Carl Sagan
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
Lao Tzu
Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
The sunlight clasps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth if thou kiss, not me?
Percy Shelley
Ever since the Timaeus it has been repeatedly stated that the soul is a sphere. As the anima mundi, the soul revolves with the world wheel, whose hub is the Pole.
Carl Jung
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.
Sylvia Plath
Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.
Albert Einstein
It was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it.
Marcus Aurelius
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.
Richard Feynman
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.
Rachel Carson
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
Alex Honnold
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Magda Boulet
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
Edward Abbey
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
Cindy Ross
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
William Shakespeare
…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Going to the mountains is going home.
John Muir
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
Nancy Newhall
Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.
G.M. Trevelyan
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.
Paulo Coelho
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
Aristotle
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Alexander Supertramp McCandless
Deep down, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.
Carl Sagan
Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
The poetry of the earth is never gone.
John Keats
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
John Muir
Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Longfellow
We don’t stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.
Finis Mitchell
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.
Frank Lloyd Wright
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.
Claude Monet
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
Hippocrates
Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints.
Frederic Gros
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
Walt Whitman
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
Steve Maraboldi
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlett
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
Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. 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
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Henry David Thoreau
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’
Sylvia Plath
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
John Muir
As human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what’s around the corner.
Jimmy Chin
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Isaac Newton
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
A Final Word
Whether you’re a nature lover or not, it’s hard to argue with the calming and refreshing effects of spending time in the great outdoors. And what could be better than combining that with some wisdom from some of history’s most famous thinkers? We hope you enjoyed these quotes about nature as much as we did.
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