Nature - Quotes and Proverbs

Keep the earth clean. Here are some quotes and proverbs about nature and the environment.

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Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Stewart Udall

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

Henry Moore

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Philip James Bailey

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Roger Miller

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Robin Williams

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D.H. Lawrence

The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don't care about you.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

George S. McGovern

The kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

David Attenborough

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

John Steinbeck

The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Noam Chomsky

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen
Source: Mansfield Park (1814)

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

Water is the driving force in nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

David Suzuki