Quotes about Nature
Strong and content I travel the open road.
- Walt Whitman
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
- Harriet Tubman
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
- Martin Luther
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
- Pablo Picasso
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
- Charles Swindoll
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
- Anne Lamott
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
- Richard Allen
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
- Wendell Berry
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
- John Bunyan