The best Quotes about Nature and Environment

What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Nature has to be felt.

We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.

We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

Nature gives so much more than it asks for in return.

Nature's my religion. Earth's my church. Loving every creature is my belief.

These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Nature is such a patient sculptor - grinding a tiny bit each day slowly, slowly for thousands of years to make such a supremely beautiful thing.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Only nature itself does great things for free.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.

Everything in nature called destruction must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.

The real significance of wilderness is a cultural matter. It is far more than hunting, fishing, hiking, camping or canoeing; it has to do with the human spirit.

Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!