100 nature quotes that capture the beauty of our earth (2024)

Nature offers some of the world's purest and simplest joys.

While the city has its charms, nothing compares to the beauty of a tall tree, the sweet smell of flowers, or the feeling of a fresh breeze on your face.

Though we may sometimes forget it in our busy daily lives, we are inextricably tied with the natural world.

There's evidence that nature is a crucial part of our wellbeing: Studies show that spending time in nature improves cognition, lowers stress, and boosts your mood.

The sublime beauty of rocky mountaintops and sweet wildflower meadows have moved eons of artists and writers to wax poetic about nature's magnificence.

Famous naturalists like John Muir, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau devoted their lives to studying the natural world.

Whether you're a city slicker or a country mouse, these quotes will inspire you to get outside and enjoy the bounty of our planet.

Here are 100 quotes that capture the beauty of nature.

Best nature quotes

• “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent van Gogh
• “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir
• “The earth has its music for those who will listen.” — Reginald Holmes
• “It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.” — Theodore Roosevelt
• “Truly the schemes and wonders of Nature are illimitable.” — Charles Darwin

• “During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.” — John James Audubon
• “If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.” — Steve Irwin
• “Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn’t fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.” — Diane Ackerman
• “Nature is what we know/ —Yet have no art to say— / So impotent Our Wisdom is /To her Simplicity.” — Emily Dickinson,” Nature Is What We See”
• “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 richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” — Claude Monet
• “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
• “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” — Duke Ellington
• “Land really is the best art.” — Andy Warhol

• “I wish the world was twice as big ― and half of it was still unexplored.” ― Sir David Frederick Attenborough
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ― Henri Matisse
• “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• “The mountains are calling and I must go.” ― John Muir
• “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” — D. H. Lawrence

• “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” ― Toni Morrison
• “Let us permit nature to have her way: She understands her business better than we do.” — Michel de Montaigne
• “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” ― Steve Maraboli
• “Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.” ― Roman Payne
• “Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” ― Emily Wing Smith

Powerful nature quotes

• “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.” ― Chief Seattle
• “We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances innature, and forget that we have shared their cause.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.” — Theodore Roosevelt
• “But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” — Rachel Carson

• “An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars of heaven.” — Charles Darwin
• “Nature is the art of God.” ― Dante Alighieri
• “As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.” — John James Audubon
• “It used to be said, that in places like this, nature eventually failed to support man, the truth is exactly the reverse, here man failed to support nature.”— David Attenborough
• “We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.” — Joseph Campbell

• “To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” –William Blake
• “Human subtlety... will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” — Leonardo da Vinci
• “The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jeweled with sparkling stars.” ― Virgil
• “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” ― Walt Whitman
• “How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!” — Henry David Thoreau

• “The Poetry of earth is never dead.” ― John Keats
• “It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.” ― Thomas Fuller
• “Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf’s a flower; / But only so an hour. / Then leaf subsides to leaf. / So Eden sank to grief, / So dawn goes down today. / Nothing gold can stay.” ― Robert Frost
• “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” ― Theodore Roethke
• “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck

• “I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.” ― Jack London
• “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
• “Look for the truth in nature, I wanted to say to those cookie-eating missionaries in the next compartment; nothing is complete, everything is imperfect, nothing lasts. Go to bed.” — Paul Theroux
• “Men argue. Nature acts.” ― Voltaire
• “You are the sky. Everything else ― it’s just the weather.” ― Pema Chödrön

• “If you can’t be in awe of nature, there’s something wrong with you.” — Alex Trebek
• “Where despite disparities / We all care to protect this world, / This riddled blue marble, this little true marvel / To muster the verve and the nerve / To see how we can serve / Our planet.” ― Amanda Gorman
• "I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." — Lewis Carroll
• “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
• “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” ― Vladimir Nabokov

Seasonal nature quotes

• “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” ― Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ― George Eliot
• “I saw old Autumn in the misty morn / Stand shadowless like Silence, listening / To silence.” — Thomas Hood, “Autumn”
• “‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’...’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…’” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett
• “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” — Faith Baldwin, “American Family”

• “Swim through the serene summer sky.” — Virgil
• “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” — Vincent van Gogh
• “Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Shed no tear! O shed no tear! /The flower will bloom another year.” — John Keats, “Faery Songs”
• “Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.” — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

• “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
• “Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” ― Mark Twain
• “The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.” — Diane Ackerman
• “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate. / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ― William Shakespeare
• “April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot

• “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” ― Carl Reiner
• “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• “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
• “With luck, it might even snow for us.” — Haruki Murakami

• “Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” ― George R.R. Martin
• “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” ― Marcel Proust
• “When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty.” — Joseph Campbell
• “Spring is nature’s way of saying, Let’s party!” ― Robin Williams
• “One must have a mind of winter, to regard the frost and the boughs, of the pine-trees crusted with snow.” — Wallace Stevens

Quotes about trees and forests

• “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” — John Muir
• “I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees.” — Jane Goodall
• “As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.” — Anton Chekhov
• “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, “As You Like It”

• “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” –Alice Walker
• “A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.” — Robert Henri
• “Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.” — Bertrand Russell
• “What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?” — Pablo Neruda
• “The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.” — Bob Dylan

• “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” ― Dolly Parton
• “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Not just beautiful, though ― the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” ― Haruki Murakami
• “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” ― John Muir
• “What about naming trees?...If we have a tree in our name, we want that tree to live.” — Jane Goodall

• “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, / There is a rapture on the lonely shore, / There is society where none intrudes, / By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: / I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” ― Lord Byron
• “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.” ― Bill Bryson
• “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill
• "They reach the realms of tranquil bliss. / Green spaces folded in with trees, / A paradise of pleasances." — Virgil, "The Aeneid"