Last updated on July 8th, 2024

The beauty and power of nature have long inspired a sense of wonder and reverence for the world around us. Writers and artists, philosophers and scientists draw inspiration in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of nature. Whether you are looking for a motivational message or the perfect social media caption, this carefully curated collection of quotes celebrates the love of nature and life, and nurtures a deep appreciation for our world.

1. Short Nature Quotes
2. Forest Quotes
3. Flower Quotes
4. Nature Love Quotes
5. Beauty of Nature Quotes
6. Nature Peace Quotes
7. Motivational Nature Quotes
8. Inspirational Nature Quotes
9. Sustainability Quotes

Short Nature Quotes

• “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” —Mattie Stepanek
• “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” —John Muir
• “When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty.” —Joseph Campbell
• “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” —E. B. White
• “The earth is what we all have in common.” —Wendell Berry
• “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”  —Gretel Ehrlich
• “We can never have enough of nature.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Going to the mountains is like going home.” —John Muir
• “Land really is the best art.” —Andy Warhol
• “It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.” —A. A. Milne
• “I firmly believe nature brings solace in all troubles.” —Anne Frank
• “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
• “Water is the driving force of all nature.” —Leonardo da Vinci
• “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” —Robin Williams
• “If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.” —Aristotle

Forest Quotes

• “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” —John Muir
• “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” —Katrina Mayer
• “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” —Alice Walker
• “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” —Robert Louis Stevenson

Flower Quotes

• “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” —Theodore Roethke
• “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.” —Joseph Addison
• “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” —Gérard de Nerval
• “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson
• “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”  —A. A. Milne

Nature Love Quotes

• “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
• “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” —Marie Curie
• “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
• “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” —Aristotle
• “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” —David Attenborough
• “Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” —Lorraine Anderson
• “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” —Jimmy Carter

Beauty of Nature Quotes

• “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” —Vincent van Gogh
• “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” —L. Wolfe Gilbert
• “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” —Rachel Carson
• “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” —Natalie Angier
• “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” —John Ruskin
• “Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” —Haruki Murakami

Nature Peace Quotes

• “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
• “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” —Eckhart Tolle
• “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” —John Burroughs
• “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” —Rachel Carson
• “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

Motivational Nature Quotes

• “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.” —David Attenborough
• “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ” —Galileo Galilei
• “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
• “The place to observe nature is where you are: the walk to take to-day is the walk you took yesterday. You will not find just the same things.” —John Burroughs
• “Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.” —Aristotle
• “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” —Linda Hogan
• “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

Inspirational Nature Quotes

• “The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.” —Francis Bacon
• “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman
• “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” —Leonardo da Vinci
• “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth.” —Rachel Carson
• “Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” —Sir John Lubbock

Sustainability Quotes

• “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
• “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” —Rachel Carson
• “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” —Carl Sagan
• “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” —Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
• “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” —Robert Swan
• “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.” —Barbara Ward
• “I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.” —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• “I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.” —Mother Teresa