The 84 best quotes about Nature (and famous quotes)

A collection of aphorisms and great proverbs about Mother Nature and her goodness.

Nature surrounds us and takes care of us. However, we humans are not taking care of her as she deserves, and we are making our planet more and more uninhabitable.

Respect for the environment has gained followers since scientific data have shown that human action is causing serious damage to air quality. The hole in the ozone layer also causes decompensations in the climate of several continents, which in the end generates an effect of increase of the global thermperature, causing thawing and environmental problems that require immediate solutions.

Nature Phrases

In today's article we are going to know some phrases of Nature that allow us to understand the treasure that we must care for and conserve on our Planet Earth.

If you think we have forgotten any famous quotes or important reflections, please add them in the comments section below.

1. We understand nature by resisting it. (Gaston Bachelard)

The more we care for it, the more we understand it.

2. Keep your love for nature, because it is the true way to understand art more and more. (Vincent Van Gogh)

A great vision of the Dutch painter.

3. In nature things are much more separate than souls. (Georg Simmel)

A harmonious whole composed of many souls.

4. Wisdom never says one thing and nature another. (Juvenal)

Great reflection on the natural order.

5. Nature is the art of God. (Dante Alighieri)

So is the form in which the superior force expresses itself.

6. Trees are the efforts of the earth to speak to the listening heaven. (Rabindranath Tagore)

The Indian writer spoke thus about the connection between natural forces.

7. All the works of nature must be considered good. (Cicero)

Reflection of the Latin orator.

8. There is a book always open to all eyes: nature. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

She teaches us everything we want to learn.

9. The fact that we feel so much at ease in the midst of nature comes from the fact that nature has no opinion about us. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

It does not judge us, but integrates us into it.

10. We can only master nature if we obey it. (Francis Bacon)

Paradox of the pen of the British writer.

11. Nature is the best teacher of truth. (Saint Augustine)

A saint who had great words of praise for the natural world.

12. Man has made the earth a hell for animals. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

A phrase that highlights how we treat other forms of life.

13. In nature there is nothing superfluous. (Averroes)

Everything has a meaning.

14. Nature has put in our minds an insatiable desire to see the truth. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

A philosophical reflection of great depth.

15. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

In every element we find a little piece of soul.

16. In nature is the preservation of the world. (Henry David Thoreau)

Great reflection of the American writer.

17. Nature never rushes. Atom by atom, little by little it accomplishes its work. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Without haste but without pause, in great harmony.

18. Nature is pleased with simplicity. (Isaac Newton)

The simple tends to survive.

19. We can defy human laws, but we cannot resist natural laws. (Jules Verne)

From the author of Around the World in 80 Days.

20. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. (Edward Abbey)

Food for thought.

21. If you really love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. (Vincent Van Gogh)

Every corner is full of magic.

22. Water is the driving force of all nature. (Leonardo da Vinci)

The principle of life.

23. Nature is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital as water or good bread. (Edward Abbey)

We could not live in a jungle of asphalt.

24. Choose only one teacher; nature. (Rembrandt)

Mother Nature has much to teach us.

25. Study nature, love nature, get close to nature. It will never fail you. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

An ode to the natural world and its benefits.

26. Nature does not hurry, yet all things are accomplished. (Lao Tzu)

In perfect harmony at every level.

27. Nature and silence go best together. (Terri Guillemets)

Without stridency, with stillness and constancy.

28. The earth has music for those who listen. (George Santayana)

Beautiful poetic phrase.

Look deeply into nature and then you will understand everything better. (Albert Einstein)

The Jewish physicist had it clear.

30. Adopt the rhythm of nature; her secret is patience. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Another phrase from nature emphasizing its controlled rhythm.

31. Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Molière)

To apply to other facets of life, metaphorically.

32. In all things in nature there is something of the marvelous. (Aristotle)

Thought of the Greek philosopher.

33. The good man is the friend of all living things. (Mahatma Gandhi)

On higher morality.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. (Henri Matisse)

A different way of looking at life.

35. Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to its operations. (David Gerrold)

Precisely, it is to learn that we are vulnerable to them.

36. Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. (Gary Snyder)

Plain and simple.

37. In nature there are no rewards or punishments, there are consequences. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

Simple cause-effect relationships.

38. I would rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck. (Emma Goldman)

An ode to flowers and their magic.

39. On earth there is no heaven, but there are parts of it. (Jules Renard)

Everywhere we can appreciate incredible things.

To forget how to dig the earth and take care of the soil is to forget ourselves. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Agriculture should never be neglected.

41. The poetry of the earth is never dead. (John Keats)

Poetry in its purest form.

42. Nature sustains the universal life of all beings. (Dalai Lama)

Reflection of the pacifist leader.

43. The wealth I attain comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. (Claude Monet)

His greatest muse.

44. Nature makes nothing incomplete and nothing in vain. (Aristotle)

Everything has a harmonious meaning.

45. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

From a small seed forests are generated.

46. Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we take care of it. It is our universal responsibility to pass on a healthy earth to future generations. (Sylvia Dolson)

On the importance of educating children to respect the environment.

47. Each flower is a soul that blooms in nature. (Gerard de Nerval)

A brutal metaphor.

48. I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and in the environment. (Pat Buckley)

One of those nature phrases that make our hair stand on end.

49. The sky is under our feet as well as over our heads. (Henry David Thoreau)

Paradise on earth.

50. Nature always watches over the preservation of the universe. (Robert Boyle)

From the local to the global.

51. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. (Theodore Roethke)

There is something special in them.

52. The beauty of the natural world is in the details. (Natalie Angier)

Every detail counts.

53. Nature provides exceptions to the rule. (Margaret Fuller)

For example, platypuses.

54. Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. (Blaise Pascal)

Reflection on the nature of the French writer.

Green is the principal color of the world, and from which its beauty arises. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)

Green of meadows, plants and leaves.

56. A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. (Maya Angelou)

Beautiful phrase to love nature more and better.

57. There is something fundamentally wrong with treating land as if it were a business in liquidation. (Herman Daly)

On capitalism and its way of obtaining resources.

58. Nature provides a free meal, but only if we control our appetite. (William Ruckelshaus)

It is up to us not to demand too much.

59. The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Great reflection on the scarcity of resources.

60. The earth laughs in the flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Thus he expresses himself.

61. In every walk with nature one receives much more than he seeks. (John Muir)

Contact with the environment makes us progress and feel better.

62. Today I have grown taller by walking with the trees. (Karle Wilson Baker)

A walk in the woods makes us better on many levels.

63. The slightest movement is of importance to all of nature. The whole ocean is affected by a pebble. (Blaise Pascal)

Thought of the French physicist.

64. He who loves and understands a garden will find joy within it. (Chinese proverb)

This beautiful reflection comes to us from the East.

65. I have always regarded nature as God's clothing. (Alan Hovhaness)

A kind of heavenly cloth.

66. Nature is my medicine. (Sara Mos)

Few things can't be solved by surrounding yourself with natural resources.

67. The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. (Thornton Wilder)

Curious reflection.

68. There is enough in the world for human need but not for human greed. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

A great reflection on natural resources.

69. The worst threat to our planet is the belief that someone will save it. (Robert Swan)

Only our own decisions will have results.

70. Water and land, the two essential fluids on which life depends, have become global garbage cans. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

The French explorer expressed himself thus.

71. We humans alone produce garbage that nature cannot digest. (Charles Moore)

In industrial quantities and without any control.

72. The world we share has been given to us in trust. Every decision regarding the land, air and water around us should be made with the goal of preserving them for all generations to come. (August A. Bush III)

One of those nature phrases that emphasizes the importance of preserving the environment.

73. I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet lies with the individual consumer. (Denis Hayes)

Of the individual, and how it can generate new ways of doing.

74. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. (Native American proverb)

Great reflection.

75. It's horrible that we have to fight our government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams)

When governments should be the first ones interested in preserving the natural environment.

76. The earth is insulted and offers flowers in reply. (Rabindranath Tagore)

In spite of everything, it offers us its best fruits.

77. The earth is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest, it is the only thing we share. (Lady Bird Johnson)

Common to all living things.

78. The earth is not an inheritance from our fathers, but a loan from our children. (Indian proverb)

Indeed, it is that which we shall bequeath to them.

79. To live intensely one must be connected with Mother Nature and her fruits. (Juan Armando Corbin)

The Argentine psychologist shows us how our senses are really connected with our condition.

80. Only when there is no air left to breathe will we realize that the economy was not the most important thing. (Pandrian Troglia)

What is essential is not economic growth, GDP or profits. But we seem to have a hard time realizing that.

81. The last stone of the last river also holds the essence of Mother Nature. (Francis Castel)

It is not only nature that is a feast for the senses.

82. As long as you breathe, there is still time.

A graffiti on a wall in Santiago de Chile invited us to think about the future of our planet.

83. The world changes by your example, not by your opinion. (Paulo Coelho)

It is useless to talk if we do not act to reverse the situation.

84. The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner)

Ecology is not an abstract entity. Everything we do in our daily lives, how we consume and how we relate to each other affects the health of the planet in one way or another.