Inspirational Quotes About Nature

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A Course In Miracles
Spiritual teachings book
Do not accept this little, fenced-off aspect of yourself. The sun and ocean are as nothing beside what you are. The sun beam sparkles only in the sunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. Yet in neither sun nor ocean is the power that rests in you.

Aesop 620BC-564BC
Greek fabulist & storyteller
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Steven Aitchison
British author
A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger.

Astrid Alauda
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the Earth in a Twinkie.

You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden.

Mitch Albom 1958
American author
There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Cecil Frances Alexander 1818-1895
Irish hymnwriter & poet

All things bright and beautiful,
all creatures great and small.
All things wise and wonderful,
the Lord God made them all.

Hans Christian Anderson 1805-1875
Danish author
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to seeing them that we call them ordinary things.

Maya Angelou 1928-2014
American memoirist & poet
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Every storm runs out of rain.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
If one way be better than other, that you may be sure is.. Nature’s way.

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

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Eberhard Arnold 1883-1935
German theologian
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the Earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone.

B. Atkinson
The dandelion does not stop growing because it is told it is a weed. The dandelion does not care what others see. It says, ‘One day, they’ll be making wishes upon me.’

David Attenborough 1926
British broadcaster & biologist
If you lose the connection with nature, you lose a source of great pleasure.

Nature doesn’t sit still. Things and individuals are changing, dying and new things are coming.

The great heroes and heroines of our society are of course the teachers, and in particular the teachers of kids in their first years. Once a child has been shown what the natural world is, it will live with them forever.

St Augustine 354-430
Algerian bishop & theologian
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction with nature, but in contradiction with what we know about nature.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

Sri Aurobindo 1872-1950
Indian philosopher, yogi & poet
As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and things we shall realise that there is consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in every thing that belongs to physical nature.

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Richard Bach 1936
American author & writer
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Francis Bacon 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist & statesman
God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist & statesman
Natural abilities are like natural plants.. They need pruning by study.

Roger Bannister 1929-2018
English neurologist & runner of 4 minute mile
No longer conscious of my movement, I dis covered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

Sarah Brana Barak
When one sees the tree in leaf, one thinks the beauty of the tree is in it’s leaves, and then one sees the bare tree.

Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887
American congregationalist clergyman
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the Soul.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati 1940-2012
American founder of Kashi Ashram
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blooms.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Black Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cotton tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in different ways.

The sky is round, and I have heard that the Earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

William Blake 1757-1827
English poet & painter
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Thomas Blount
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect, carries with it the impress of it’s Maker, and can - if duly considered - read us lectures of ethics or Divinity.

Major Malcolm Boyd ?-1944

If I have said goodbye to stream and wood
To the wide ocean and green clad hill,
I know that He who made this world good
Has somewhere made a Heaven better still.

This I bear witness with my last breath
Knowing the love of God
I fear not death.

from poem: If I Should Never See The Moon Again

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher
Why explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Phillips Brooks 1835-1893
American clergyman & author
Let me tell you how it seems to me that we come to know about our heavenly Father. It is from the power of love which is in our own hearts. Love is at the soul of everything. Whatever has not the power of loving must have a very dreary life indeed.

We like to think that the sunshine and the winds and the trees are able to love in some way of their own, for it would make us know that they were happy if we knew that they could love. And so God who is the greatest and happiest of all beings is the most loving too.

All the love that is in our hearts come from Him, as all the light which is in the flowers comes from the sun. And the more we love, the more near we are to God and His love.

Pam Brown 1948
Australian poet
The work of a garden bears visible fruits - in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861
English poet
Earth’s crammed with Heaven and every common bush, afire with God.

William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878
American journalist, editor & poet
Autumn.. The year’s last loveliest smile.

Martin Buber 1878-1965
Austrian-Israeli philosopher
There is a light over every person, and when two Souls meet, their lights come together, and a single light emerges from them to feel the universal generation as a sea, and oneself as a wave in it.

Gertrude Tooley Buckingham 1880-1971
American poet

Said the other little daisy, “I am very well content
To live simply in the meadow where the sun and rain are sent;
Where the bees all gather sweetness, and the dew falls on my head
And the radiance of the moonlight is all around me shed.
The grass and clover blossoms admire my beauty all day long,
As I listen to the music of a bird’s delightful song.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

John Bunyan 1828-1688
English writer & Puritan preacher
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924
British-American novelist & playwright
And this, my lovely child, is your garden.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924
British-American novelist & playwright
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

John Burroughs 1887-1921
American naturalist & essayist
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs 1887-1921
American naturalist & essayist
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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 the Spring… these are some of the rewards of a simple life.

Tony Burroughs 1948
Genealogist, author & lecturer
As you love the Earth, so shall she love you.

Lord Byron 1788-1824
English poet & peer

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is a society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but Nature more

Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven.

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Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
Always look on the bright side of life, for the more joy and love you radiate, the more joy and love will you draw to you. Love all souls around you, for you will find everyone responds to love in the end.

Children and animals respond immediately because they have no barriers to pull down. They feel that love flow instinctively, for they are not suspicious of wrong motives and intentions, but simply accept and respond to love and return it joyously.

Be like a child, able to see and enjoy those little seemingly insignificant wonders in life: the beauty of a flower, the song of a bird, the glory of the sunrise, the rain drops trickling down a window pane. How simple and yet how truly beautiful they are when you look at them with eyes that really see and cease to rush through life in such a hurry that you fail to notice them!

Be not concerned if your beginnings into this spiritual life are small. All good things have small beginnings. The mighty oak starts from a tiny acorn. From a tiny seed the most wonderful plants and flowers spring forth. From a tiny seed of love many lives can be changed. From a tiny thought of faith and belief wonder upon wonder can come about. Little things grow into big things.

Be grateful for all the little things in life; then, as they grow, you will be grateful for each and every one, and you will express your gratitude in words and deeds. Let that which is within express itself without. Always remember that a grateful heart is an open heart, and it is much easier for Me to work in and through an open heart.

Give thanks and keep on giving thanks for everything, so I can work in and through you all the time and bring about My wonders and glories for all to see.

Look at the abundance of nature, of the beauty all around you, and recognise Me in everything.

Realise that you, by doing your part, can help to bring peace and harmony into the world. It is every tiny drop of water that makes up the mighty ocean and every tiny grain of sand that makes up the beach. Therefore every individual at peace within can bring outer peace into the world.

Sow seeds of love wherever you go, and see them grow and flower and flourish. Seeds of love sown in even the hardest of hearts will start to grow in the end, it make take time for the seeds to germinate, but as they are tended with loving care, they cannot fail to grow.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author
You cannot create the new by remaining immersed in the old. A newborn babe cannot remain attached to its mother. The umbilical cord has to be cut so that it becomes a separate being. So with this spiritual life.

Once you have set your foot on the spiritual path and have decided to live in the ways of the Spirit, you have to make a clean break with your old way of life. You cannot have a foot in both worlds. The choice is yours. Let there be no going back on that choice. Keep moving forward. It is when the going is rough that you may crave the so-called ’good old days’ and want to go back. There is no going back in this life.

A babe cannot return not its mother’s womb when life becomes too hard for it. A chick cannot return to its shell, or a butterfly to its chrysalis. Life cannot go backwards. It has to go forward, always forward.

John Calvin 1509-1564
French theologian, pastor & reformer
There is not one blade of grass, there is no colour in this world, that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
American writer
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with nature.

Thomas Campbell 1777-1844
Scottish poet
‘Tis distance lends enchantment to view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Albert Camus 1913-1960
French philosopher, author & political activist
Autumn is a second spring.. When every leaf is a flower.

Amira Carluccio 1957
Blogger

Haiku Poem: Bird’s song
A beautiful song
on a branch,
hides in the leaves-
Pure joy with feathers!

Haiku Poem: In The Garden
Fragrant rose
perfumes the air…
The Spirit soars!

Haiku Poem: Thirst Quenched
Watering the garden,
diamonds sparkling on leaves,
Thirst quenched!

Haiku Poem: Wind Chimes
Wind chimes
tickled by the breeze-
a joyful laughter!

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney 1823-1908
American educator, poet & author

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages,
Of eternity.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964
American marine biologist & writer
Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

Lydia Maria Child 1802-1880
American abolitionist, activist & journalist
A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Every human Soul has a germ of some flowers within; and they would open if they could only find sunshiny and free air to expand in. I always told you that not having enough sunshine was what ailed the world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarrelling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of Angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers. They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage alter, and the tomb.

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my window twice alike.

Carol P. Christ 1945-2021
American historian, theologian & author
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation, affirming my connection to the Earth body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC-43BC
Italian poet, philosopher & orator
Everything is alive.. Everything is interconnected.

St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153
French abbot & co-founder of Knights Templar
Believe one who knows; you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from Masters.

Paulo Coelho 1947
Brazilian author
Spend time in nature and appreciate its beauty and wisdom.

William Cowper 1731-1800
English poet & hymnwriter
Happiness depends, as nature shows
Less on exterior things than most suppose

When all within is peace
How nature seems to smile
Delights that never cease
The live-long day beguile

Arthur C. Coxe
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

Crazy Horse c. 1840-1877
Native American Chief of Oglala Lakota tribe
A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

Crowfoot 1830-1890
Native American Chief of Blackfoot tribe
A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go.

What is life?
It is the flash of firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
And loses itself in the sunset.

E. E. Cummings 1894-1962
American poet, painter & author
I thank God most for this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural, which is infinite.

Scott Cunningham 1956-1993
American author
The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy and realise similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colours and animals.

Marie Curie 1867-1934
Polish-French physicist & chemist
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

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Dante 1265-1321
Italian poet, writer & philosopher
Nature is the art of God eternal.

Baba Hari Dass 1923-2018
Indian yoga master & monk
Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the Earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

Ram Dass 1931
American spiritual teacher
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Rene Daumal 1908-1944
French spiritual writer, critic & poet
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Hunter Davies
Take nothing but pictures - leave nothing but footprints - kill nothing but time.

Esther Davis-Thompson
Author
Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that wisdom is everywhere. In pieces.

Some of the wisdom is in the trees, some of the wisdom is with the animals. Some of the wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the wisdom is in our minds.

All of the wisdom is from the Spirit of God.

Charles Dickens 1812-1870
English author & journalist & writer
There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn’t happen to be good for my work today, it’s good for some other man’s today, and will come around for me tomorrow.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
American poet
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Timothy Dudley-Smith 1926-2024
English hymnwriter & Church of England bishop

Praise the Lord for times and seasons
Clouds and sunshine, wind and rain
Spring to melt the snows of winter
Till the waters flow again

Eleonora Duse 1858-1924
Italian actress
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has the power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your Soul is alive.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker
Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.

The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you’re an integral part of the natural world.

When you’re at peace with your life and in a state of tranquillity, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.

Henry van Dyke 1852-1933
American author & Presbyterian clergyman
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

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Amelia Earhart 1897-1937
American aviation pioneer
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Catherine Edwards
Founder of The Catherine Edwards Academy
If you spend time chasing butterflies, they’ll fly away. But, if you spend your time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come to you. When you focus on improving yourself, everything you want will come to you. We attract based on who we are, not what we want. Don’t chase, attract.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880
English novelist & poet
Delicious autumn. My very Soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.

We could never have loved the Earth so well if we had had no childhood in it – where the same flowers come up again every spring, the ones we used to gather with our tiny fingers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
A man is related to all nature.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the Universe.

I do not count the hours I spend
In wandering by the sea;
The forest is my loyal friend,
Like God it useth me.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown. But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the Universe with their admonishing smile.

She paints with white and red the moors
To draw the nations out of doors.

The April winds are magical
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden walks are passional
To bachelors and dames.

The hedge is gemmed with diamonds,
The air with Cupids full,
The cobweb clues of Rosamond
Guide lovers to the pool.

Each dimple in the water,
Each leaf that shades the rock
Can cozen, pique and flatter,
Can parley and provoke.

Good fellow, Puck and goblins,
Know more than any book.
Down with your doleful problems,
And court the sunny brook.

The south-winds are quick-witted,
The schools are sad and slow,
The masters quite omitted
The lore we care to know.

The babe by its mother
Lies bathed in joy;
Glide its hours uncounted, -
The sun is its toy;

Shines the peace of all being
Without cloud, in its eyes;
And the sum of the world
In soft miniature lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the Universe.

The sky is the daily bread of the imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer
What is a weed?.. A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.

Masaru Emoto 1943-2014
Japanese author & researcher
Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the Universe.

Essene Gospel Of Peace
Ancient manuscript
Beside the river stands the Holy tree of life. There doth my Father dwell and my home is in Him. The Heavenly Father and I are one.

David Everett 1770-1813
American newspaper editor & poet
Large streams from little fountains flow, tall oaks from little acorns grow.

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Richard Feynman 1918-1988
American theoretical physicist
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Martin Henry Fischer 1879-1962
German-American physician & author
Here’s good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

If you don’t know what’s meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.

Emmet Fox 1886-1951
Irish author & spiritual leader
I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole Universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on Earth, without any distinction.

Anatole France 1844-1924
French poet, journalist & novelist
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the Universe.

Almira L. Frink 1870-1903

Shall claim of death cause us to grieve
And make our courage faint or fail,
Nay, let us faith and hope receive,
The rose still grows beyond the wall.

Scattering fragrance far and wide,
Just as it did in the days of yore
Just as it did on the other side
Just as it will forever more.

from poem: Near Shady Wall A Rose Once Grew

Robert Frost 1874-1963
American poet

Dust Of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued

Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
American architect, systems theorist & writer
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

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Richard le Gallienn 1866-1947
English author & poet
I meant to do my work today, but a brown bird sang in the apple tree, and a butterfly flitted across the field and all the leaves were calling.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Indian leader, activist & lawyer
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

John J. Geddes
Author
Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – Inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

Dan George 1899-1981
Native American Chief of Tsleil-Waututh tribe

May the stars carry your darkness away.
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty.
May hope forever wipe away your tears.
And above all, may silence make you strong.

Dan George 1899-1981
Native American Chief of Tsleil-Waututh tribe

The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.

The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
the rhythm of the sea,
speaks to me.

The faintness of the stars,
the freshness of the morning,
the dew drop on the flower,
speaks to me.

The strength of fire,
the taste of salmon,
the trail of the sun,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.

And my heart soars.

Geronimo 1829-1909
Native American of Apache tribe
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds, and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
All things from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, exist within you as equals. In one atom are found all the elements of the Earth. One drop of water contains all the secrets of the oceans. In one motion of the mind are found all the motions of all the laws of existence.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: your seeds shall live in my body, and the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, and your fragrance shall be my breath, and together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

Art arises when the secret of vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

As between the Soul and the body there is a bond, so are the body and its environment linked together.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
Give and take.. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life. For to the flower a bee is a messenger of love. And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
If the ignorant say to you that the Soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kindness is like snow: it beautifies everything it covers.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Say not, I have found the path of the Soul. Say rather, I have met the Soul walking upon my path.

For the Soul walks upon all paths. The Soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The Soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals.

The butterfly will continue to hover over the field and the dewdrops will still glitter upon the grass when the pyramids of Egypt are levelled and the skyscrapers of New York are no more.

The flower that grows above the clouds will never wither. And the song chanted by the lips of the brides of dawn will never vanish.

The millstone may break down, but the river continues its course to the sea.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
The tree that contrives to cheat life by living in the shade withers when it is removed and replanted in the sun.

Trees are poems the Earth writes upon the sky.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet
When I planted my pain in the field of patience, it bore fruit of happiness.

Elizabeth Gilbert 1948
American journalist & author
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

William Henry Gill 1839-1923
Italian composer

We thank thee, Lord, for sunshine, dew, and rain,
Broadcast from Heaven by Thine almighty hand
Source of all life, unnumbered as the sand
Bird, beast, and fish, herb, fruit, and golden grain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
German poet, playwright & novelist
If nature is your teacher, your Soul will awaken.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890
Dutch artist
If you truly love nature.. You will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890
Dutch artist
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

The heart of man is very much like the sea. It has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

Emma Goldman 1869-1940
Lithuanian political activist & writer
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Jane Goodall 1934
English ethologist
I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Elizabeth Porter Gould 1848-1906
American poet, essayist & suffragist

We thank, Thee, Lord, for quiet upland lawns,
For misty loveliness of autumn dawns,
For gold and russet of the ripened fruit,
For yet another year’s fulfilment, Lord,
We thank Thee, now.

For joy of glowing colour, flash of wings,
We thank Thee, Lord; for all the little things
That make the love and laughter of our days
For home and happiness and friends, we praise
And thank Thee now.

Trina Graves 1961
English Spiritual poet & quote anthologist

In the times of old, nature ruled the days
Governed by the sun’s lightening rays
Dawn, mid-day and dusk were the cue
To the timing of all they needed to do

quote from poem: Every Instant Of Time Is A Pinprick Of Eternity

My mind is open when I read
Of Your Love, it plants a seed
Love and Light are all I need
To blossom, grow and succeed

quote from poem: My Eyes Are Open

My truly greatest part
Most people do not see
My Spirit radiates
As I rise up like a tree

To the Heavens I reach
Branching out into the unknown
We are linked, we are all One
With the trees I have grown

quote from poem: The Tree In Me

Trina Graves 1961
English Spiritual poet & quote anthologist

Think of difficult times as growth
Seeds planted in your life all around
You will get through it some day
And flowers of wisdom will be found

Instead of ’Why is this happening to me?’
Think of ’What is this trying to teach?’
Be positive as much as possible
And a happier life you’ll soon reach

quote from poem: I Am Not What Happened To Me

Walking with Mother Nature in your view
So much can be seen as all the same
But open your eyes and Heart to reveal
Nature’s awesomeness in every frame

quote from poem: Change The Way You Look At Things

Ursula Le Guin 1929
American author
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Dorothy Frances Gurney 1858-1932
English hymn-writer & poet

The kiss of sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer to God’s heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on Earth.

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Hafiz 1325-1389
Persian lyric poet
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky.

Walter C. Hagen 1892-1969
American golfer
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, “No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will continue to nourish the tree. So I don’t worry at all. As I leave this branch and float to the ground, I will wave to the tree and tell her, ‘I will see you again very soon.’” That day there was a wind blowing and, after a while, I saw the leaf leave the branch and float down to the soil, dancing joyfully, because as it floated it saw itself already there in the tree. It was so happy. I bowed my head, knowing that I have a lot to learn from the leaf because it is not afraid - it knew nothing can be born and nothing can die.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
Take the hand of your child and invite her to go out and sit with you on the grass. The two of you may want to contemplate the green grass, the little flowers that grow among the grasses, and the sky. Breathing and smiling together – that is peace education. If we know how to appreciate these beautiful things, we will not have to search for anything else. Peace is available in every moment, in every breath, in every step.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-2022
Vietnamese monk & peace activist
When you plant a lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet, if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

George Harrison 1943-2001
English singer/songwriter, musician & member of The Beatles
The speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech.

Hasidic Saying
When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and hold, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their Soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.

William Hazlitt 1778-1830
English essayist, critic & philosopher
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understanding and our hearts.

Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993
British actress
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Heraclitus 535BC-475BC
Ancient Greek philosopher
No man ever steps in the same river twice..
For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Napoleon Hill 1883-1970
American author
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. it’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the wind and rains and scorching sun.

Hippocrates 460BC-370BC
Ancient Greek physician & philosopher
Nature itself is the best physician.

Hitopadesa
Indian Sanskrit text of fables
Hospitality is to be shown even towards an enemy. The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter.

Linda Hogan 1947
American author & poet
Walking… I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly, all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Robert Holden 1964
British psychologist & author
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self.. The real you.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894
American physician, poet & polymath
The amen of nature is always a flower.

John Caldwell Holt 1923-1985
American author, educator & proponent of homeschooling
Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?

Horace 65BC-8BC
Roman lyric poet
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Victor Hugo 1802-1885
French poet, novelist & dramatist
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Laughter is the sun that drives the winter from the human face.

Winter is on my mind.. But eternal spring is in my heart.

Aldous Huxley 1894-1963
English author, poet & philosopher
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Peg Huxtable
The best reflections are there when the wind, water and you are still.

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I Ching
Ancient Chinese book of divination
The union of Heaven and Earth is the origin of the whole of nature.

Institute of HeartMath
Non-profit organization for a heart-centred world
Heartfelt emotions positively effect all living things.. People, animals, plants, water.

Steve Irwin 1962-2006
Australian zookeeper, wildlife educator & TV personality
We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

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Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer
I try to be loving, and I try to find love and see love in all things. I love nature, I love the forest. I love the grace, the gentleness, the easiness of how gentle nature is. It is just giving. I love that.

Music started with nature. Music is nature. Birds make music. Oceans make music. Wind makes music. Any natural sound is music. And that’s where it started.

William James 1842-1910
American philosopher & psychologist
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

James Hopwood Jeans 1877-1946
English physicist & astronomer
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932
English horticulturist, writer & artist
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Chief Joseph 1840-1904
Native American chief of Nez Perce tribe
The Earth and myself are of one mind.

Juvenal 55-127
Roman poet
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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Abdul Kalam 1931-2015
Indian scientist & 11th President of India
All birds find shelter during the rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

John Keats 1795-1821
English poet
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats 1795-1821
English poet
The poetry of the Earth is never dead.

Rose Kennedy 1890-1995
American matriarch of Kennedy family
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

William Kent 1685-1748
English architect & furniture designer
All gardening is landscape painting.

Garden as though you will live forever.

Miranda Kerr 1983
Australian model
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.

Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886-1918
American writer & poet

Trees

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast

A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair

Upon whose bosom snow has lain
Who intimately lives with rain
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree

Charles King
A surgeon once had an argument with his gardener about religion. ‘I’ve cut into hundreds of bodies,’ said the doctor, ‘and I’ve never seen a human Soul.’ ‘Well,’ said the gardener, ‘If you had cut into a tulip bulb, you wouldn’t see a flower.’

Akiane Kramarik 1994
American painter & poet
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the Earth.

Akiane Kramarik 1994
American painter & poet
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

Akiane Kramarik 1994
American painter & poet
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986
Indian philosopher, writer & spiritual figure

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song
Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for spring
When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with
The music of many leaves
Which in due season fall and are blown away
And this is the way of life

Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986
Indian philosopher, writer & spiritual figure
Listen to desire as you listen to the wind among the trees.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926-2004
Swiss-American psychiatrist & author
To love means never to be afraid of the winds storms of life: should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

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Jess Lair 1927-2000
American educator & author
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.

Dalai Lama 1935
14th Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
Today more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to all other forms of life.

Charles Lamb 1775-1834
English essayist & poet
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Doug Larson 1926-2017
American columnist & editor
Be a weed - A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill.. Except for learning how to grow in rows!

Edith Rutter Leatham
English poet

A Child’s Grace

Thank you for the world so sweet
Thank you for the food we eat
Thank you for the birds that sing
Thank you God for everything

Edwin Leibfreed
Poet

All things bend to help the man
Who sees to harmonise
His own free will with nature’s plan
And prove himself most wise

John Lennon 1940-1980
English singer-songwriter & musician of The Beatles
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

C. S. Lewis 1898-1963
British author & Anglican lay theologian
Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Samuel Longfellow 1819-1892
American clergyman & hymn writer

The summer days are come again
With sun and clouds between
And, fed alike by sun and rain
The trees grow broad and green
Spreads broad and green the leafy tent
Upon whose grassy floor
Our feet, too long in cities pent
Their freedom find once more

The summer days are come again
Once more the glad earth yields
Her golden wealth of ripening grain
And breadth of clover fields
And deepening shade of summer woods
And glow of summer air
And winging thoughts, and happy moods
Of love and joy and prayer

The summer days are come again
The birds are on the wing
God’s praises, in their loving strain
Unconsciously they sing
We know who giveth all the good
That doth our cup o’erbrim
For summer joy in field and wood
We lift our song to Him

‘Tis winter now; the fallen snow
Has left the heav’ns all coldly clear
Through leafless boughs the sharp winds blow
And all the earth lies dead and drear

And yet God’s love is not withdrawn
His life within the keen air breathes
His beauty paints the crimson dawn
And clothes the boughs with glittering wreaths

And though abroad the sharp winds blow
And skies are chill, and frost are keen
Home closer draws her circle now
And warmer glows her light within

O God! Who giv’st the winter’s cold
As well as summer’s joyous rays
Us warmly in Thy love enfold
And keep us through life’s wintry days

Lord Merlin-Natalie Glasson
Channeller & author
The trees have always acted as an anchor of the Creator’s Energy into the Earth, it is because of this that most trees exist as a link between the Earth’s physical vibration and the quicker vibration of the Creator’s Universe.

Richard Louv 1949
American author & journalist
Teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing.

We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.

John Lubbock 1834-1913
English archaeologist, biologist & author
All those who love nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world – not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are all excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

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.

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, as as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock 1834-1913
English archaeologist, biologist & author
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labour, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers of crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.. In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologist the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colours, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

Joanna Lumley 1946
British actress & presenter
Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That’s it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Luther Standing Bear 1868-1939
Native American Chief of Oglala Lakota tribe
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. He knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence.

We did not think of the open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Only the white man was nature a wilderness, and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

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