7,238 Quotes About Nature

The woods invite me into themselves so that I might be drawn out of myself. And if I have never engaged in such an exchange, I will find myself a man so full of myself that I am nothing but myself. And that is a terribly small thing to be.

omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

A dialectical tension exists between people and nature through which each person determines his or her ultimate state.

Only when the last tree has dies, the last river has been poisoned, the last fish has been caught— will we realize we cannot eat money.

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of joyous tears, and sing to the songs of streaming senses.

How strange this silent longing for death, as if you could make the sun not come up, the world's wheeling and wheeling its seasons like a cruel continuation of stubborn force.