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Quotes About Nature

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.
~ Mark Twain
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.
~ Katherine Center
The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
~ Lawrence Halprin
We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.
~ Renzo Gracie
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
~ Alice Walker
I do not believe in the beauty of falling.
~ Unknown
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
~ Unknown
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
~ R. S. Thomas
We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.
~ Olivia Wilde
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
~ Beatrix Potter
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.
~ Hilda Doolittle
As I walk .. as I walk .. / The universe .. is walking with me .. / Beautifully .. it walks before me .... / Beautifully .. on every side .... / As I walk .. I walk with beauty.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
~ Baldur von Schirach
You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.
~ Monty Don
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
~ Wallace Stevens
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .
~ Anne Spencer
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.
~ David Letterman
Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
~ William Shakespeare
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
~ Henri Matisse
If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.
~ Nancy Willard
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
~ Joseph Campbell