Famous Quotes

"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."

John Muir on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "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 on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by John Muir

• "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you."

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

• "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

• "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."