Doing anything outdoorsy this summer? Let's hope so! There's a whole world out there to see—and scrapbook about! Lots of families like to spend family vacations by camping, hiking, biking, you name it—as long as it's outdoors. We already published a quote bank filled with sayings on camping and hiking and swimming and fishing and such, so today we're here to present some quotes on nature. You know, that stuff you'll be enjoying while you're out on all your excursions? Well, we're loaded with good ones.
But before that, there's just a few items of business that you're probably going to be glad we told you. First off—the ship for our October Canada/New England crafting cruise is filling up!
A few more inside cabins remain, but they're dropping like flies. So book your spot NOW so you can take part in all the fun. We had an absolute ball on our May Alaskan adventure, and things can only get better! Plus, if you want to enjoy nature, this is definitely one way to do it—it's going to look heavenly there in the fall time. In fact, several of the same ladies who joined us in Alaska are planning on coming to Canada and New England because they enjoyed themselves so much.
Okay, now on to our quotes:
NATURE
Nature
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars —Martin Luther
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble —Blaise Pascal
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere —Blaise Pascal
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration —Claude Monet
We cannot command nature except by obeying her —Francis Bacon
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you —Frank Lloyd Wright
...everything in nature is lyrical in it's ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence —George Santayana
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome that the most luxurious Persian rug —Helen Keller
If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy —Kurt Vonnegut
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship —Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is always in movement —V.S. Naipaul
Earth
Every day is Earth day
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew —Marshall McLuhan
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior —Darryl Cherney
For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death —Tom McMillan
Take nothing but pictures / Leave nothing but footprints / Kill nothing but time —Motto of the Baltimore Grotto
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another —Juvenal
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life —Rachel Carson
The earth is what we all have in common —Wendell Barry
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts —Rachel Carson
The best investment on earth is earth —Louis J. Glickman
Flowers
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers —Heinrich Heine
Flowers are love's truest language —Park Benjamin
The earth laughs in flowers —Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck —Emma Goldman
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits —William Carlos Williams
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own narcissus —Charles Kuralt
A flower is an educated weed —Luther Burbank
Clouds
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds —Henry David Thoreau
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds —G.K. Chesterton
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky —Rabindranath Tagore
Sky
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky —Buddha
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand —Frederic Lawrence Knowles
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
All I need is my one star in the sky, to wish for you everyday.
We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened —Mark Twain
I saw a star, I reached for it, and missed. So I accepted the sky —Scott Fortini
And they were canopied by the blue sky, so cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful that God alone was to be seen in Heaven —Lord Byron
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky / The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled —Thomas Hood
They sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary —Alfred Kreymborg
A sky full of silent suns —Jean Paul Richter
Trees
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven —Rabindranath Tagore
The trees are God's great alphabet / With them He writes in shining green / Across the world His thoughts serene —Leonora Speyer
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do —Willa Cather
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a mosse singing "Embraceable You" in spats —Woody Allen
If trees could scream would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason —Jack Handey
The groves were God's first temples —William Cullen Bryant
Trees are your best antiques —Alexander Smith
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible —Welsh Proverb
There are rich counsels in the trees —Herbert P. Horne
Breeze is the conductor, trees the musicians, leave the instruments —Nathaniel Le Tonnerre
The best part of happiness is the pines —The Quote Garden
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world —John Muir
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence —Hal Borland
Grass
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars —Walt Whitman
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it —Proverb
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled —African proverb
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself —Zen proverb
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge —Thomas Edison
Grass is the cheapest plan to install and the most expensive to maintain —Pat Howell
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun and kissed the lovely grass —Rupert Brooke
Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal —Brian Ingalls
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'grow, grow.' —Talmud
Water
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry —Thomas Fuller
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable —William Wordsworth
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land —Joseph Conrad
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man —Henry David Thoreau
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go —Blaise Pascal
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mountains
Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills —Chinese proverb
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway —Henry David Thoreau
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs —Friedrich Nietzsche
Great things are done when men and mountains meet —William Blake
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves —John Muir
