Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

18018 quotes

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"The natural world contains all the symbols we need."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Nature is the great teacher."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Nature reveals the divine."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Nature teaches us more than books ever could."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Nature holds wisdom for those who listen."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The good earth is rich, and if men would work it together, it could make all of them rich."
Fannie Hurst
"The sea is a sovereign mistress and demands respect."
Marianne Moore
"To understand nature is to understand our place in it."
Marianne Moore
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"All I could see from where I stood was three long mountains and a wood."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Nature teaches us more than books ever could."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Nature teaches us efficiency; we should learn from it."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Nature whispers truths that civilization often shouts away."
Amy Lowell
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Amy Lowell
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"Nature is the greatest artist; all human art is merely imitation."
Amy Lowell
"Nature teaches us that decay feeds growth, and endings create beginnings."
Fannie Hurst
"One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees crusted with snow."
Wallace Stevens
"The greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world."
Wallace Stevens
"After the leaves have fallen, we return to a philosophy of nakedness."
Wallace Stevens
"The weather is also a philosopher."
Wallace Stevens
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"The moon rises and a dog barks somewhere in the distance."
O. Henry
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"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude."
Kate Chopin
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"There are moments in life when all we can do is yield to the wisdom of nature."
Kate Chopin
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"Nature teaches us the lessons we are most resistant to learning."
Kate Chopin
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"Nature's beauty is a constant source of renewal and inspiration."
Kate Chopin
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"The beauty of nature offers solace that human society often denies."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"I have a garden of my own, but I don't know what it is yet."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"I have loved the trees as much as I have loved any person."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Nature teaches us lessons we're too hurried to learn."
Fannie Hurst