The outdoors is so much more than a place to get away from it all. It’s a place where we can reconnect with ourselves and strengthen our spirit. These nature quotes will inspire and motivate you to get out and enjoy the wilderness.
1. “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth if thou kiss, not me?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
3. “We know that God is everywhere, but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.” – Charlotte Brontë
4. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
5. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
6. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
7. “Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
8. “Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami
9. “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell
10. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli
11. “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” – John Lennon
12. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir
13. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – John Donne
14. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature as all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” – William Blake
15. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
16. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is a society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” – Lord Byron
17. “Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” – John Muir
18. “Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ …’ It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.’” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
19. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” – Isaac Newton
20. “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir
21. “Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
22. “In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
23. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” – Charlotte Eriksson
24. “Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.” ― Terence McKenna
25. “Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.” – Amit Ray