20 Favorite Nature Quotes
We can learn a lot from nature. There are profound metaphors left and right. Today I just wanted to list my current favorite quotes about nature and the garden.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust”
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
“Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.”
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.”
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
“It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.”
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.”
“The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”
Did any of these quotes inspire you?
What is your favorite nature quote?
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