Nature Quotes

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise

George Washington Carver

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind.

Alfred D. Souza

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.

Emily Dickinson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

Rachel Carson

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

Rachel Carson

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

Rabindranath Tagore

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Pearl S. Buck