Nature Quotes

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

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"There's a fire in human nature which we can't stamp out."
Anton Chekhov
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"Fretting about overpopulation, wasteful consumption, and what we are leaving for future generations."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I love the sticky leaves of spring."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Nature speaks to us in a language we have long forgotten."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Nature creates while destroying; it builds while it tears down."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Nature is the greatest teacher for those who observe."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Nature whispers truths that society is too loud to hear."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I heard the exultation of the lark after sunset and could not stay; the blue deepened."
James Joyce
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"The winter destroys, but the spring restores."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"All the variety, all the charm, and all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The presence of trees calms the human soul."
Anton Chekhov
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"Nature is not always tricked out in a bud, my dear."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Once more the storm is howling, and half hid under this cradle-hood."
William Butler Yeats
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"That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."
William Butler Yeats
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"The flower fades but the root remains."
William Butler Yeats
"Nature teaches us patience through its seasons."
Samuel Beckett
"Nature heals what civilization breaks."
Samuel Beckett
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"I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Nature is the manifestation of divine law."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Nature teaches us patience, resilience, and the cycles of renewal."
Leo Tolstoy
"The sun shines, having no alternative."
Samuel Beckett
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"Beauty in nature is not just about aesthetics; it teaches us about truth."
Anton Chekhov
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"The same old song—how we need the sun, how we are drawn to it."
Anton Chekhov
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"In nature, there is no such thing as a mistake, only variations."
Anton Chekhov
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"Nature takes no account of our convictions; she follows her own laws."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
William Butler Yeats
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"The earth can be full of a kind of beauty one is wild to understand."
William Butler Yeats
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"Nature does not often say 'come hither,' but without saying anything, we are drawn."
Thomas Hardy