Nature Quotes, Veganism, And Loving Our Planet

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” 

“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.” 

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

 “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”                                                                                                                                   

“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” 

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

“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”                                                                                                             

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” 

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

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

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

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”                                     -                                     

“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.”  

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” 

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

“All good things are wild and free.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”

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

“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.”

“To walk into nature is to witness a thousand miracles."                                                                                                                                                    

“The goal is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”                          

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”                                                                                                                                           

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”                                                                                                                        

“The earth has music for those who listen.”                                                                                                                                                                                                     

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”                                                                

“Nature is loved by what is best in us.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

“Choose only one master – nature.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”                                                                                                                                                                      

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” 

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”                                                                                              

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

“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.”                                                            

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“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.” 

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

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.” 

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” 

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair” Khalil Gibran

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.”                                                                                                          

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ” 

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” 

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

“Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.” 

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”

“Life is a dance between heaven and earth, the ebb and flow of life.”                                                                                                              

“I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”

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

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”