Nature Quotes

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.

All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.

Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

-Attributed to Chief Seattle

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
-Audobon

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
-Albert Einstein

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them
-A. A. Milne (Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. 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

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
-John Muir

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
-Henry David Thoreau

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