296 quotes
“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”
"Good environmental policy is good economic policy."
— Bernie Sanders
"Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
— William Wordsworth
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
— Walt Whitman
"The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become."
— Wallace Stevens
"I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god"
— T. S. Eliot
"The flower that does not smileat the branches withers."
— Rumi
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
— Buckminster Fuller
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
— Maya Angelou
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
— Marie Curie
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
— Joseph Campbell
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
— John Updike
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
— John Muir
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
— George Washington Carver
"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
— Galileo
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
— FDR