Nature Quotes
Sad Quotes about Nature

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin

It appears to be a law that you cannot have
a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- Henry David Thoreau

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir

Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster

The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is more of good nature than of good sense
at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot

Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

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

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

There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin

When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon

What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir

All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie

Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau

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.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir

Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau

Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein

Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass
is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller

Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon