famous quotes inspired by nature
Famous Quotes Inspired by Nature
"The mountains are calling and I must go." A quote by John Muir aptly defines the longing of man to learn the ways of nature. Life is quirky and inventive; don't make it a trail of pedestrian, pedantic mundaneness. Nature is out there to inspire you; take the hint!
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
― D. H. Lawrence
We have been waiting. Waiting for ... for ... something! Waiting to be that someone we have always thought we wanted to be, we could be, we could have been, we are on the mighty verge of becoming! Waiting to cup that glittering cloud of life, which winks at us with unabashed simplicity. In the mind, in the heart, we always are a stone's throw away from what we want to be. The maudlin truth (Irony at its best!): We wait to become, and ignore who we essentially are. For years, decades even, we wait to begin with the proverbial journey called life! Why? Because that moment you have been waiting for, has not, well, arrived! Life goes on, dawn to dusk, and we wait ceremoniously for it to flutter its wings and take flight, never realizing that life, indeed, goes on. ...
Inspiration Aplenty
Think of trees, birds, the wind, the wild. They live in the moment; we live for the moment. A bird's first flight is special; its last whimper when thudding the land after the game is special, too. Nature is the greatest and the most august teacher, under whose tutelage we may learn to live. Allen Saunders, rightfully beads his words. He says, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." This, indeed, is so true!
Shouldering this heroic spirit is a collection of quotes, carefully selected for you, dear readers. They aim to unfold the virginal humility of nature, striving to change the life we lead ... only if we give it a chance!
"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."
― Serbian proverb
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
― Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
― Mahatma Gandhi
"The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it."
― Ted Trueblood
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
― E.B. White, Letters of E. B. White
"And then there are the times when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling."
― George Carlin
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
― Albert Einstein
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
― Henri Matisse
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
― Khalil Gibran
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
― William Wordsworth
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."
― George Washington Carver
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in."
― George Washington Carver
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
― John Keats
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
― Frank Lloyd Wright
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
― Henry Ward Beecher
"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."
― Claude Monet
"Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know of Nature."
― St. Augustine
"My profession is to always find God in nature."
― Henry David Thoreau
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
On a parting note, let nature breathe life into LIFE. Let us trade the taxing travail with the nurturing hand of nature. This is it! This is life, waiting for you to unravel its beauty, waiting to be chosen, molded, crafted! ...― Rachel Carson