Are you looking for some inspirational nature quotes perfect for nature lovers? Here are 71 being in nature quotes to remind you of nature’s beauty and why we all love spending time in the natural world.
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1 – Enjoy everything the great outdoors has to offer.
“The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.”
Shikoba
2. Even better if you rest in nature!
“Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
John Muir
3. Sound good to me!
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
4. Spending time in nature makes you happy.
“Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
Walt Whitman
5. Nature makes us all better people
“Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone — there’s nothing like it.”
Jason Ward
6. It’s so important to step outside and leave technology behind from time to time.
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
7. There is so much beauty to be found in nature.
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” Claude Monet
Claude Monet
8. Sounds perfect to me.
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
William Shakespeare
9. There is beauty everywhere. Just keep your eyes open to find it.
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and winds long to play with your hair.”
Kahli Gibran
10. Simple pleasures in nature.
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
Edward Abbey
11. We all need time in nature.
“There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.”
Ralph Smart
12. Yes! So true. One of my favourite nature quotes.
“Being in nature has a way of calming my soul more than anything else.”
Katie Hendricks
13. Spending time is nature is a stress reliever.
“Colors are the smiles of nature.”
Leigh Hunt
14. What a lovely idea.
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
Rober Louis Stevenson
15. So very true.
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Jane Austen
16. Nature is a great place to spend time
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin
17. No weather is bad, only different
“I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
Anne Frank
18. I couldn’t agree more. Nature is a fantastic stress reliever.
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith
19. Live life to the full but don’t foget to pay attention to the natural world around you.
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
20. Resting in nature is not a waste of time, it’s a form of self care and relaxation.
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.”
Aristotle
21. How true is that!
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach us more than we can ever learn from books.”
John Lubbock
22. We can learn a lot from nature.
“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
L. Wolfe Gilbert
23. What a beuatiful thought.
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”
Katrina Mayer
24. How true is that?
“Sky above me, earth below me, fire within me.”
Unknown
25. We have limitless potential and endless opportunities.
“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein
26. I love this idea.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
John Muir
27. Sometimes you really need to lose your mind and find your soul.
“A walk in nature walks the soul back home.”
Mary Davis
28. A walk in nature can benefit the mind greatly.
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
Gary Snyder
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“Nature is the purest portal to inner-peace.”
Angie Weiland Crosby
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
Anne Frank
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“If I could, I would never leave nature. I would stay in a forest forever basking in its beauty and calmness.”
Unknown
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“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
Rachel Carson
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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
John Burroughs
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“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there is something good about feeling both.”
Amy Grant
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“Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher.”
William Wordsworth
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“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Lorraine Anderson
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“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
Henry David Thoreau
39. Love this!
“I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
John Muir
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
Aldous Huxley
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“If you do not take time to be in nature each and everyday, you will never find the peace you are searching for.”
Unknown
45.
“Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.”
Jason Ward
46.
“There is just something special about being in nature. It calms your soul and has a unique way of healing you, unlike anything else.”
Sarah Johnson
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“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”
Maxime Lagaće
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.”
Unknown
50.
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
Claude Monet
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“If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”
Buddha
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“Being in nature is like being in a calming place with relaxing sounds everywhere you turn. Even the sound of bird calls, cars zooming by, and silent wind has a way of bringing peace to your soul.”
Harold Smith
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“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
Alice Walker
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“Nature welcomes everyone regardless of what they have gone through. Nature can and willingly will heal everyone, as long as the person allows it to heal them.”
Unknown
55. Everyone is welcome in nature.
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
Langston Hughes
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“Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind.”
Amit Ray
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“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
Helen Keller
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“Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.”
Debasish Mridha
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“The greener the setting, the more the relief.”
Richard Louv
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more.”
Lord Byron
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“Be in nature as often as you possibly can. Because it is only there where you can find true peace, happiness, and serenity.”
Unknown
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“Going to the mountains is like going home.”
John Muir
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“Nothing beats being in nature, surrounded by sunshine, a cool breeze, and greenery everywhere you look. That is my happy place.”
Mark Connors
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“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
Dogen
66. Who doesn’t love the mountains?
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”
Standing Bear
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“Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”
Haruki Murakami
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“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.”
Brooke Hampton
69. So true.
“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
Walt Whitman
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“If you don’t love being in nature, you need to go out in it more often. Get your bare feet on the grass. Sit and watch the clouds as they float on by. And just be. Then you will learn to love nature and all it offers you.”
Unknown
71. Such a great quote to end on!
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