Quotes about nature
276 quotes from 143 people
- MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006), “Messenger”
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937)It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (30 August 1856)The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. II, letter to Miss Georgiana Harcourt (1838), p. 410Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and OpinionsThe idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“Shadows from the Big Woods”, p. 223Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 1.And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-DayO lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Dejection: An Ode (1802), St. 4Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Maelstrom II” (1965)