With so many of us leading busy daily lives, it’s often easy to push that yearning for fresh air, lush green meadow, and the calming whisper of nature to one side.
Many of us are aware that spending time in nature’s beauty is good for our health and well-being, but sadly, we sometimes just don’t get the chance to enjoy it.
Throughout the year, there are a number of environmental days where we can celebrate and help to protect our natural environment; Earth Day, International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, No Mow May, World Environment Day, World Oceans Day, and World Soil Day to name a few.
If you’re looking for the best nature quotes, here is a collection of outdoor quotes that will invite you to reignite your love affair with the great outdoors.
A powerful reminder of the beauty mother nature has to offer.
Quotes on the beauty of nature
- “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ― Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
- “Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.” —Beau Taplin
- “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” – Andy Warhol
- “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” – Lord Byron
- “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me, older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.” —Robinson Jeffers
- “Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under.” – C. Joybell C.
- “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
- “If there is any wisdom running through my life now, in my walking on this earth, it came from listening in the Great Silence to the stones, trees, space, the wild animals, to the pulse of all life as my heartbeat.” – Vijali Hamilton
- “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
- “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
- “A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.” – Hal Borland
- “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
- “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
- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”. – Khalil Gibran
- In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov
- “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, it’s the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan
Short Nature Quotes for Earth Day
- “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you”. – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” – Anne Frank
- “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” – Zeno
- “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” –Vincent van Gogh
- “Nature is the purest portal to inner-peace.” – Angie Weiland Crosby
- “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson
- “Choose only one master—nature.” – Rembrandt
- “Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.” – Mark Twain
- “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu
- “Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray
- “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” —Emma Goldman
- “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” – Robin Williams
- “Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher”. William Wordsworth
- The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
- “In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” – Aristotle
Love Nature Quotes
- 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. – William Blake
- “Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” —Haruki Murakami
- “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
- Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.” —Amy Grant
- “The light in space, when you’re in the sunlight, is the brightest, whitest, purest light I have ever experienced.” —Michael Massimino
- “How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson
- “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell
- “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- “For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.” — John Clare
- “The forest makes your heart gentle. You become one with it. No place for greed or anger there.” – Pha Pachak
- “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
- “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless
- I see trees of green, Red roses too, I see them bloom, For me and you, And I think to myself, What a wonderful world – Louis Armstrong
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. – Jimmy Carter
Inspirational Nature Quotes
- “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” -John Muir
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman
- “Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.” – John Lubbock
- “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting – over & over announcing your place in the family of things.” ― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
- “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” – unknown
- “Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone—there’s nothing like it.”- Jason Ward
- “There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.” – Ralph Smart
- “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” – Zora Neale Hurston
- Keep close to Nature’s heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods – John Muir
- “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” —Claude Monet
- “In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows,” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can’t we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing? Frances Arnold
I hope you enjoyed this collection of nature quotes.
It’s time to book that next adventure – a camping trip or organise a weekend hike. A perfect time to relax, take a deep breath, disconnect from social media, and explore the exquisite beauty the natural world has to offer.
