Quotations for Nature Lovers

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields
has power to move you,
if the simple things of nature
have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~ Eleonora Duse

Spring Quotations

If I keep a green bough in my heart,
the singing bird will come.
~ Chinese Proverb

Every spring is the only spring —
a perpetual astonishment.
~ Ellis Peterson

Skylark
sings all day,
and day not long enough.
~ Matsuo Basho

There came a time when the risk to remain in the bud
was more painful than the risk
it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin

And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils...
~ William Wordsworth

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
and give us not to think so far away...
keep us here all simply in the spring...
~ Robert Frost

How lovely is the silence of growing things.
~ Author Unknown

The peace and beauty of a spring day
had descended upon the earth like a benediction.
~ Kate Chopin

Spring has returned.
The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Summer Quotations

Summer afternoon... summer afternoon - the two
most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James

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

To see the Summer Sky is Poetry, though never
in a Book it lie — True Poems flee —
~Emily Dickinson

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
~Shakespeare

Flowers are my music.
~Sir Thomas Arnold

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,
our whole life would change.
~ Buddha

May your life be like a wildflower growing freely
in the beauty and joy of each day. ~ Native American Proverb

Once you become fluent in the language of flower,
a world of poetry awaits.
~Rowan Jacobsen

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

Look, the trees are turning their own bodies
into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance
of cinnamon and fulfillment... ~ Mary Oliver

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne

Winter Quotations

In the depth of winter, I finally learned
that within me there lay
an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus

O Winter! ruler of the inverted year...
I crown thee king of intimate delights...
~ Willam Cowper

Sweet bird! thy bow'r is ever green,
Thy sky is ever clear;
thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
~ John Logan

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
~ Robert Frost

Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?
All its branches are outlined and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.
~ Krishnamurti

One kind word can warm three winter months.
~ Japanese Proverb

Quotations For All Seasons

As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
~ Stephen Graham

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
~ e.e. cummings

I'll tell you how the sun rose
a ribbon at a time. ~ Emily Dickinson

The first act of awe, when man was struck
with the beauty or wonder of Nature,
was the first spiritual experience.
~ Henryk Smolimowski

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song. ~ Maya Angelou

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.
~ e.e. cummings

In all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous.
~ Aristotle

...to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
~ John Keats

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason... Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
~ Gretel Ehrlich

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth
find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
~ Rachel Carson

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air,
to feel the earth want me...
~ Phillip Pulfrey

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