Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals."
Walt Whitman
"I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd."
Walt Whitman
"The earth, that is sufficient."
Walt Whitman
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"Meditation and water are wedded forever."
Herman Melville
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"The vast salt ocean rolls around us."
Herman Melville
"In nature, there is no blemish but the mind; none can be called deformed but the unkind."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The wilderness speaks to those with ears to hear its whispers."
James Fenimore Cooper
"In the vast expanse of nature, man finds both humility and infinite possibility."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The forest teaches what no schoolhouse can: the equality of all living things."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Every atom of your dust contains a story of eternity."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The universe whispers to those who know how to listen."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The night reveals what the day conceals."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The universe is composed of whispers and shadows."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Like trains of cars on tracks of plush, I hear the level bee."
Emily Dickinson
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"The sky is low, the clouds are mean, a travelling flake of snow."
Emily Dickinson
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"The robin is the one that minds the most."
Emily Dickinson
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"Nature is the sermon that needs no words."
Emily Dickinson
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"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."
Washington Irving
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"Nature has marked out a path for every man, and the wise man follows the path that nature has marked for him."
Washington Irving
"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
Mark Twain
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"The great Leviathan teaches us that nature's grandeur surpasses human comprehension."
Herman Melville
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"The whale's eye holds the depths of the world's sorrows and mysteries."
Herman Melville
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"The sea cares nothing for human intentions or elaborate plans."
Herman Melville
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"Nature cares nothing for human morality or civilization."
Herman Melville