Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"In America, that's where I belong. Here the sun shines down and warms the earth, and life is good."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The natural world teaches us patience through observation."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The sea provides all the philosophy one needs."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Nature has all the answers if you know how to listen."
Ernest Hemingway
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"There's something in the nature of a ship and the sea that works some change in the hearts of men."
John Steinbeck
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"The offing was barred by a thin line of dark cliffs."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"In the struggle for existence, the weak are displaced by the strong, as nature intended."
Theodore Dreiser
"Nature is indifferent to human morality, a lesson we struggle to learn."
Theodore Dreiser
"Beauty in nature reminds us of what we have lost in ourselves."
Theodore Dreiser
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"The stubbornest of all our perversities is the belief that we are less subject to the laws of nature than the vegetables."
Edith Wharton
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"The beauty of nature is that it is always renewing itself."
Edith Wharton
"Nature is the living, visible soul of the universe."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Nature cares nothing for our moral judgments; it simply is."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Nature indifferently sustains all life without judgment or preference."
Sinclair Lewis
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are here too."
Willa Cather
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
Willa Cather
"There is one thing about that place: when you leave it, it's still in you."
Willa Cather
"The land is the only thing that matters. It is the only thing that lasts."
Willa Cather
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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The fish is my brother."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The natural world teaches us what civilization makes us forget."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The forest teaches lessons that cities cannot."
Ernest Hemingway
"I think a long walk and a good book can cure almost anything."
Louisa May Alcott
"Nature cares nothing for human morality or justice."
Theodore Dreiser
"Nature reveals the hand of the Creator in every living thing."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"Nature teaches us that persistence is more valuable than perfection."
Edith Wharton
"Nature has a wonderful way of revealing truth."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Nature reveals the handiwork of the Creator."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"In nature, there are no coincidences, only patterns we haven't yet understood."
Sinclair Lewis
"Nature teaches us to be humble and to appreciate simple beauty."
Louisa May Alcott