Nature Quotes

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Her, Progress, Knows

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Ask, Birds

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Cannot, Bees

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty, Men, Old

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Made, Soul

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

God, Person, Learn

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

Nothing, Sun, Around

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

Learn, Sea, Earth

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard

Change, Weather, Start

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

Stars, Less, Grass

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

Good, Sunrise, Daily

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

Books, Window, Satisfies

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

Another, Making, Egg

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

Happiness, Time, Made

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

Beautiful, Sunrise, Give

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

Rain, Others, Walk

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

Speak, Effort, Earth

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

Through, Universe, Forest

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

Heart, Everything, Night

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

Beauty, Ugly, Mountain

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

God, Hard, Said

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

Adapt, Imperative, Perish

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