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 “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

  Jeff Cox

  Mother, Song, Garden

  Jeff Cox (1993). “Creating a Garden for the Senses”

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• To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mother, Gratitude, Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Rachel Carson

  Beauty, Nature, Humility

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mother, Teacher, Rivers

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mother, Teacher, Second Chance

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.40, Holt Paperbacks

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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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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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