70 Nature Quotes That Capture the Beauty of the Great Outdoors

"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.”

"Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we left the wind of change carry us."

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."

"If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much."

"A good river is nature's life work in song."

"If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”

"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."

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

“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.”

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

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

"Going to the mountains is like going home."

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“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.”

“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under.”

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“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."