When we’re in need of a bit of inspiration we always head out into nature. If we can’t get out into the wilds of a national park, then anywhere with some trees will do! No matter how difficult the day has been, reconnecting with nature never fails to bring some perspective and we always leave feeling better than when we arrived.
We hope these quotes inspire you to get out into nature, as well as giving you a great caption to go with that Instagram pic!
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“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”
- Maxime Lagacé
“The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.”
– Shikoba
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
- Vincent Van Gogh
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
– Ashley Smith
"Going to the mountains is like going home."
- John Muir
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”
- Katrina Mayer
"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
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
– John Burroughs
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
- Helen Keller
"An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.”
- David Attenborough
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
- Khalil Gibran
“I can't remember a time when I was not fascinated by nature. I would say that nearly all children find wildlife interesting. You only have to show a child a snail or a spider to see that he or she is captivated by it. So of those that lose that interest with the onset of adulthood, I can only ask: ‘How on earth did you let it happen?’'”
- David Attenborough
“Land really is the best art.”
- Andy Warhol
“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. “
- Gretel Ehrlich
“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
“There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
- Charlotte Eriksson
“Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher.”
– William Wordsworth
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
- Toni Morrison
“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
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
– John Lubbock
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.”
- Jason Ward
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
- Jimmy Carter
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men argue. Nature acts.”
- Voltaire
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
- John Ruskin
"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Choose only one master - nature."
- Rembrandt
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity's heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.”
- J. Drew Lanham
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.“
- Marie Curie
"Leave the roads; take the trails."
- Pythagoras
"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan
“Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone- there’s nothing like it.”
- Jason Ward
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
- Joseph Campbell
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"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
"I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!"
- Richard Phillip Feynman
"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
- Edward Abbey
"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature."
- Claude Monet
“The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
- Lady Bird Johnson
"Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me."
- Haruki Murakami
“The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.”
- Nancy Newhall
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
- Alice Walker
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
- Rachel Carson
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
- Aristotle
"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
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
- Wendell Berry
“To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to inspire.”
- J Drew Lanham
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke
“Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
– Walt Whitman
"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
"I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness."
- Aldo Leopold
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
- Blaise Pascal
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Lao Tzu
"…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
- Vincent Van Gogh
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
- Zeno
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
- Albert Einstein
“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”
- John Muir
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
- Zora Neale Hurston
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong”
- Winston Churchill
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
“If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”
- The Buddha
"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
- Theodore Roethke
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
- Gerard De Nerval
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
- Henry Miller
"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you."
- Alex Trebeck
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
- Toni Morrison
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Colors are the smiles of nature."
- Leigh Hunt
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
- Robin Williams
"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
- Jules Renard
"The earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
- Gary Snyder
"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
- D. H. Lawrence
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
- Issac Newton
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
- Henri Matisse
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
- William Shakespeare
"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."
- Theodore Roethke
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
- George Santayana
“Nature is the art of God.”
- Dante Alighieri
“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
- L.Wolfe Gilbert
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.”
- David Attenborough
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
- William Wordsworth
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
- Jane Austen
“Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.”
- Louie Schwartzberg
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
- Blaise Pascal
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
- Albert Einstein
“It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless.”
- Riccardo Bozzi
“The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
- Natalie Angier
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
- Gerard De Nerval
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
- Rachel Carson
“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
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”
- Emily Dickinson
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
- William Shakespeare
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”
- John Burroughs
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
- James Russell Lowell
“Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
- Dogen
“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
“Nature is loved by what is best in us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
- Walt Whitman
“Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
- Edmund Burke
