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Whether you live in a city or a more quiet, less human-influenced location, there is one thing that can be present in both places—nature. Of course, the quantity of it might differ, and if you’re in the city, you could start longing for it. To carry some of that fresh and tasty air your way, we’ve gathered the best Mother Nature quotes for you to relish!

With the help of the selection below, you’ll find (or rediscover) the love for nature put into words by extraordinary people like David Attenborough, as well as learn how to appreciate nature’s gifts from wise sayings by Buddha. And if you want to remember the natural joys of Earth before moving to the city, these quotes about nature will surely bring back those wonderful memories.

If you snap a magnificent picture of nature’s wonder, a forest, a river, or anything else from the wild, these beauty-of-nature quotes will do wonders for your social media captions. There’s a quote for every type of picture, whether you just want to share your love for the wild or attach a spiritual message to express your deeper connection with nature.

So as long as the Sun is still in the sky, and the image of the wonderful outdoors is still fresh in your mind, dig into these nature quotes gathered below. Vote for your favorites, share this article with fellow nature lovers, and most importantly, don’t forget to take care of Mother Earth!

#1

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” - John Lennon

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"Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." - Gerard De Nerval

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"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored." - David Attenborough

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"If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand." - Buddha

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "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

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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

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#9

"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." - Walt Whitman

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things." - Lao Tzu

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#11

"Choose only one master—nature." - Rembrandt

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#12

"I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!" - Richard Phillip Feynman

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#13

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." - Claude Monet

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#14

"…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?" - Vincent van Gogh

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#15

"There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it." - Charlotte Eriksson

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#16

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#17

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” - Andy Warhol

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#18

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy." - Isaac Newton

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#19

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me." - Haruki Murakami

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#20

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Andersen

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#21

"The earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#22

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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#23

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few." - Emily Dickinson

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#24

"Between every two pines, there is a doorway to a new world." - John Muir

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#25

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.” - Nancy Newhall

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#26

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” - William Shakespeare

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#27

“Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone—there’s nothing like it.” - Jason Ward

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#28

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” - Zora Neale Hurston

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#29

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

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#30

"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'" - Robin Williams

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#31

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran

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#32

"Men argue. Nature acts." - Voltaire

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#33

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." - Jane Austen

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#34

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." - Walt Whitman

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#35

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson

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#36

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir

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#37

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." - William Shakespeare

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#38

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." - John Burroughs

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#39

"By discovering nature, you discover yourself." - Maxime Lagacé

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#40

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet." - Brooke Hampton

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#41

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space." - Ansel Adams

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#42

"It is said that the forest has a certain limit if you look straight ahead, but the sides are boundless." - Riccardo Bozzi

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#43

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake." - Rachel Carson

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#44

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” - Margaret Atwood

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#45

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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#46

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness." - Aldo Leopold

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#47

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle

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#48

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#49

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” - Toni Morrison

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#50

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." - D. H. Lawrence

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#51

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it." - Jules Renard

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#52

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." - Theodore Roethke

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#53

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#54

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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#55

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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#56

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke

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#57

"Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude." - Louie Schwartzberg

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#58

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." - Blaise Pascal

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#59

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

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#60

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - John Lubbock

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “‘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

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#62

“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” - Charles Lindbergh

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#63

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir

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#64

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher.” - William Wordsworth

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#65

"Going to the mountains is like going home." - John Muir

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#66

“Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.” - Jason Ward

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#67

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." - Henry David Thoreau

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#68

“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity's heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.” - J. Drew Lanham

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#69

"Leave the roads; take the trails." - Pythagoras

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#70

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' " - Syliva Plath

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#71

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder

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#72

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." - Theodore Roethke

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#73

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright

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#74

"Colors are the smiles of nature." - Leigh Hunt

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#75

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

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#76

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - George Santayana

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“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” - L. Wolfe Gilbert

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#78

“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” - Katrina Mayer

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees." - Rainer Maria Rilke

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#80

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau

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#81

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature-the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." - Rachel Carson

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#82

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Land really is the best art." - Andy Warhol

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#83

"The Amen of nature is always a flower." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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#84

"The earth is what we all have in common." - Wendell Berry

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#85

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The world is not to be put in order. The world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order." - Henry Miller

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#86

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration." - Claude Monet

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#87

"Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions." - Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder

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"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’" - Sylvia Plath

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#90

"Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind." - Amit Ray

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#91

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." - E. E. Cummings

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#92

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." - Aldous Huxley

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#93

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” - Edward Abbey

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.” - Shikoba

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#95

“All good things are wild and free.”

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#96

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” - Henry Longfellow

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “Hiking is not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.” - Sonja Yoerg

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#98

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” - Linda Hogan

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“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” - John Lubbock

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#100

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

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#101

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on 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

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#102

“At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” - Toni Morrison

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#103

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi

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#104

"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed." - Francis Bacon

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#105

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." - Alice Walker

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "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

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“To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to inspire.” - J. Drew Lanham

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#108

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

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#109

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - Henri Matisse

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#110

"To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." - Helen Keller

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"We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo Galilei

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#113

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child." - Marie Curie

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#114

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." - Gretel Ehrlich

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." - Joseph Campbell

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"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral." - John Burroughs

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#117

"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them." - Dogen

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#118

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." - Blaise Pascal

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#119

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." - Zeno

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#120

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." - Langston Hughes

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#121

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin

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#122

"Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another." - Edmund Burke

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#123

"The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Kea

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#124

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The ocean is a mighty harmonist." - William Wordsworth

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"I think nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax." - Richard Feynman

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#126

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature." - Steve Maraboldi

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#127

141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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#128

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do." - Michel de Montaigne

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#129

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

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "The beauty of the natural world lies in the details." - Natalie Angier

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#131

"Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard." - Standing Bear

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#132

“Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” - Walt Whitman

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” - Ashley Smith

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#134

“And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir

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#135

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors “A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.”

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#137

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” - Henry David Thoreau

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#138

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” - Cindy Ross

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The earth has music for those who listen." - William Shakespeare

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141 Nature Quotes To Help You Appreciate The Outdoors "Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." - George Santanaya

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