Mother Nature Quotes

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

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Memories, Native American, Doe

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• I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Believe, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.59, Heron Dance Press

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• The painter strives and competes with nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Strive, Strife, Painter

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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  Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Girl, Mother

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Mother, Doors, Balance

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• The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

  Janine Benyus

  Inspirational, Change, Mother

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Earthquakes, Bipolar

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Betrayal

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

  Paul Morley

  Mother, Flower, Cutting

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  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

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Travel, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Looks, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.735, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

  Claude Debussy

  Sunset, Musical, Sunrise

  "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". Book by Don Michael Randel, 1996.

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• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crush, Time, Jesus

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Flower, Heaven

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• The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

  Emily Carr

  Rain, Flower, Moss

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.326, D & M Publishers

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• I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Break Up, Heartbroken, Letting Go

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• The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Asking For Help, Oil, People

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• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

  Greg Peterson

  Mother, Nature, Jobs

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