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Inspirational quotes on nature and natural beauty.

Inspirational Quotes About Nature

What makes Earth the most beautiful planet in the known universe is its living, breathing nature, which provides for a vast and diverse ecosystem of plants and animals that pass on the energy of the sun from one being to another via a balanced food-chain. Nature is the symbol of serenity. For centuries, poets and artists have been enticed by simple views of nature consisting of sunlit green stretches of fields, sprinkling rivers, and flowers dancing in the breeze. However, this picturesque view of nature is at risk for our own actions as we are destroying greenery and living species at an alarming rate. The good thing is that many of us are already aware of the damage done and are fighting to protect the gift of nature that we possess. Let the following quotes from prominent people take you back to nature and spur you into action.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.

Desiderius Erasmus
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Anne Frank
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir
Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

John Muir
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Margaret Atwood
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus
The mountains are calling and I must go.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir
Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

Temple Grandin
Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Nicholas Sparks
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Garrison Keillor
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Pat Conroy
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir
Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Judy Garland

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

August Wilson
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Galileo Galilei
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Vincent van Gogh
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.

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
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens
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.

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

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

Orhan Pamuk
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Henry Van Dyke
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Galileo Galilei
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Galileo Galilei
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Thor Heyerdahl
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Galileo Galilei
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

Thor Heyerdahl
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Sue Monk Kidd
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Ayn Rand
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent van Gogh
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland
How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Shelley
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

Galileo Galilei
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world.

Daisaku Ikeda
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

Daisaku Ikeda
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art

Virginia Woolf
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Dan Brown
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Isaac Newton
Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth
I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it

Justin Bieber
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

Jerome K. Jerome
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Bernard Meltzer
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Bill Hicks
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.

Terence McKenna
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Marian Anderson
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Carl Sagan
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Wallace Stevens
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

Christian Dior
All men by nature desire knowledge.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

Abraham Cowley
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka
To be evenminded 
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Thomas More
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Henry David Thoreau
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Thomas Hobbes
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Louisa May Alcott
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Thor Heyerdahl
In nature nothing exists alone.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Benito Mussolini
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson
My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Claude Monet
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Swami Vivekananda
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Rabindranath Tagore

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Daisaku Ikeda
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Galileo Galilei
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Daisaku Ikeda
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Thomas Hobbes
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rainer Maria Rilke
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet