1. Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

- Louie Schwartzberg

2. 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

3. Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

- Anne Frank

5. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

- Hal Borland

6. Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Edmund Burke

7. The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

8. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

9. A walk in nature walks the soul back home.

- Mary Davis

10. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu

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

- Helen Keller

12. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

13. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

- Albert Einstein

14. Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

- Carl Sagan

15. If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.

- Alex Trebek

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

- John Burroughs

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

- Marie Curie

18. During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

- John James Audubon

19. As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

- Thomas Guthrie

20. Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

- Antoni Gaudi

21. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

- Albert Einstein

22. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

- William Wordsworth

23. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

- Isaac Newton

24. Water is the driving force of all nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci

25. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

26. The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

- Theodore Roosevelt

27. There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.

- Charlotte Eriksson

28. 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

29. The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

- Edward Abbey

30. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

31. Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

- George Santanaya

32. You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

- Wangari Maathai

33. To me, Mother Nature isn’t nearly as scary as human nature.

- Paula Stokes

34. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

35. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

36. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

- Theodore Roethke

37. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

38. Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone — there’s nothing like it.

- Jason Ward

39. A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

- Joshua Reynolds

40. Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

- Mattie Stepanek

41. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

- Blaise Pascal

42. If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.

- Bill Watterson

43. Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.

- Haruki Murakami

44. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

- Edward Abbey

45. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

- Rachel Carson

46. The land knows you, even when you are lost.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

47. Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

- Emily Carr

48. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

49. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

- Joseph Campbell

50. Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

- Robert Delaunay

51. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

52. Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

- Gretel Ehrlich

53. The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

- Laurent Baheux

54. The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

- Lady Bird Johnson

55. Nature can do more than physicians.

- Oliver Cromwell

56. Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.

- Beau Taplin

57. If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

- Buddha

58. Land really is the best art.

- Andy Warhol

59. The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

- Jim Fowler

60. If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.

- Terry Tempest Williams

61. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

- Amit Ray

62. Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

- L. Wolfe Gilbert

63. The course of Nature is the art of God.

- Edward Young

64. The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

- Henry Beston

65. Men argue. Nature acts.

- Voltaire

66. It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.

- Riccardo Bozzi

67. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

- Aldous Huxley

68. If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

- Steve Irwin

69. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

- Michel de Montaigne

70. Nature is the purest portal to inner-peace.

- Angie Weiland Crosby

71. I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

- Aldo Leopold

72. The Amen of nature is always a flower.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

73. 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

74. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

- John Muir

75. In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.

- Alice Walker

76. If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable.

- Ilyas Kassam

77. Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.

- Debasish Mridha

78. There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.

- Edouard Manet

79. The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.

- Claude Monet

80. I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

- Walt Disney

81. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

82. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

- Charles Lindbergh

83. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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

84. I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

- David Attenborough

85. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

86. The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

- Richard Rogers

87. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

- Jane Austen

88. Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.

- Brooke Hampton

89. 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

90. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

- Henri Rousseau

91. Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

- Hans Christian Andersen

92. We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

- Chief Seattle

93. I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.

- Cote de Pablo

94. The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.

- Wangari Maathai

95. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

96. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

- E.O. Wilson

97. 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

98. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

- Winston Churchill

99. To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

- Mahatma Gandhi

100. The Earth is what we all have in common.

- Wendell Berry

101. Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

- Hippocrates

102. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

- D. H. Laurence

103. Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world.

- Munia Khan

104. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

105. Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.

- Standing Bear

106. I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

- Aldo Leopold

107. The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

108. There is no better designer than nature.

- Alexander McQueen

109. Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

- Stewart Udall

110. 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

111. You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

- Christian Dior

112. Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

- Harvey Broome

113. The greener the setting, the more the relief.

- Richard Louv

114. Adopt the secret of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

115. Leave the roads; take the trails.

- Pythagoras

116. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness.

- Harvey Broome

117. Choose only one master—nature.

- Rembrandt

118. 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

119. Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.

- Courtney M. Privett

120. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

121. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature.

- Freya Stark

122. For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

123. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

- Blaise Pascal

124. We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

- William Hazlitt

125. How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

- Emily Dickinson

126. The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

- Euclid

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

- Rachel Carson

128. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman

129. 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

130. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey

131. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

132. You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that is out of the reach of industry and valor.

- Alexander The Great

133. Humankind’s greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

- Jonathon Porritt

134. Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

- Gary Snyder

135. 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

136. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

- Walt Whitman

137. Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence.

- Sabrina Elkins

138. It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.

- Dalai Lama

139. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

140. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

- William Wordsworth

141. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

- Mark Twain