Favorite Quotations ~ Nature

Square watercolor of a sunlit path beneath trees — soft greens, warm light Nature steadies the heart — roots us, lifts us, teaches us to walk in good light. As Karle Wilson Baker felt it, “Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”💚

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. ~ John Muir

A flower touches everyone's heart. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo. ~ Matsuo Bashō

The earth laughs in flowers. ~ e. e. cummings

Nature does nothing uselessly. ~ Aristotle

Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. ~ Gerard de Nerval

The love of flowers is really the best teacher of how to grow and understand them. ~ Max Schling

Eventually, a gardener becomes a philosopher. ~ Barbara Dodge Borland

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. ~ Kahlil Gibran

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Young people, keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life. ~ George Washington Carver

Necessity is the mistress and guide of Nature. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

The more I study Nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator. ~ Louis Pasteur

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ~ Rachel Carson, Sense of Wonder

Nature doesn't make long speeches. ~ Lao Tzu

Nature is a revelation of God. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Rainy Day

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. ~ Edward Young