Quotes about nature
276 quotes from 143 people
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), MiraclesGive me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 3.Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“The Second Rape of the West”, p. 183In our own lifetime we are witnessing a startling alteration of climate.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sea Around Us (1951)To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807)In contextAnd ‘t is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early SpringWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir1838–1914My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir1838–1914John of the Mountains (1938), journal for July 1890, p. 313As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
John Calvin1509–1564Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.- Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)