65 Inspiring Quotes About Nature

Mother Nature is the ultimate inspiration. When you're feeling sluggish, simply walking outside and getting fresh air can do wonders for your mood and outlook. Often, nature's beauty can take your breath (and words) away. In those moments of awe, we like to turn to some of our favorite nature quotes that sum up how we're feeling. When words escape you, turn to some of the best literary minds for these beautiful nature quotes. Now get outside and get inspired!

Nature Quotes

• "Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." –Gary Snyder
• "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." –John Muir
• "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
• "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." –William Blake
• "Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." –Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." –Sir John Lubbock
• "My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." –Claude Monet
• "For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." –Wendell Berry
• "Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." –Henry David Thoreau
• "Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has." –John Lubbock
• "Nature is the art of God." - Dante Alighieri

Short Nature Quotes

• "Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Nature is the source of all true knowledge.” –Leonardo da Vinci
• “A walk in nature walks the soul back home.” –Mary Davis
• “Choose only one master—nature.” –Rembrandt
• “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” –Zeno
• “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” –William Shakespeare
• “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” –Katrina Mayer
• “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” –John Keats
• "Nature is pleased with simplicity." –Sir Isaac Newton
• "Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder." –E.B.White
• "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." –Margaret Atwood
• "It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine." –A. A. Milne
• The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth." - Chief Seattle

Inspirational Nature Quotes

• "I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." –Anne Frank
• “There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.” –Ralph Smart
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." –Lao Tzu
• “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” –Mahatma Gandhi
• “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” –John Lennon
• “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” –Chief Seattle
• "Where flowers bloom, so does hope." –Lady Bird Johnson
• "Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness." –Mary Oliver
• "Storms make trees take deeper roots." –Dolly Parton
• "Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom." –Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
• "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." –Helen Keller
• "Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—over and over announcing your place in the family of things." –Mary Oliver

Beauty of Nature Quotes

• "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." –Frances Hodgson Burnett
• "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." –Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” –Vincent van Gogh
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –Henri Matisse
• "I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want." –Andy Warhol
• “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” –Alice Walker
• “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." –Rachel Carson
• “Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.” –Beau Taplin
• "The earth has its music for all who will listen." - Reginald Holmes

Force of Nature Quotes

• "There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter." –Rachel Carson
• “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” –Langston Hughes
• “You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t keep spring from coming.” –Pablo Neruda
• "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'" –Robin Williams
• "Gray skies are just clouds passing over." –Duke Ellington
• "If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.” –Buddha
• “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” –Anne Frank
• "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." –John Muir
• “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” –Albert Einstein
• “Men argue. Nature acts.” –Voltaire
• "If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves." - Steve Irwin

Nature Love Quotes

• "We can never have enough of nature." –Henry David Thoreau
• "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." –Laura Ingalls Wilder
• "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end…" –Edward Abbey
• "I lie here in the morning sun, the sun that finds me through the honeysuckle leaves, and I think of the sweetness my heart has, and the sweetness of many hearts." –Peggy Pond Church
• "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." –Joseph Campbell
• “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
• “Nature is loved by what is best in us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - Henri Matisse