7,238 Quotes About Nature

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

We are no longer indigenous to our environments. We are overfeeding but malnourished, overprotected but weak, and somehow, we are both highly sanitised yet deeply infected.

When you’re outnumbered by trees your perspective shifts.

Unplugging for a while, fixes computers and humans-Freequill

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

I dream that one day we will look at each other in the same way we look at the sun, and we will touch each other like the sun on earth, and the blessings of light will flow into our hearts.

As a species we have made a giant leap from Nature toward nurture.

Only the bellying treetops surrounding the campground are darker than the sky. I let the light go without protest; I am so filled with it right now. It makes me feel transparent, like bright glass, like a window open wide.

What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be;In the soothing thoughts that springOut of human suffering;In the faith that looks through death,In years that bring the philosophic mind.