Wisdom of the Wild: Inspiring Thoughts on Nature and Conservation

Nature and Conservation

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
• "In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." — John Muir
• "The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth." — Chief Seattle
• "Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction." — E. O. Wilson
• "The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." — Lady Bird Johnson
• "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." — John Muir
• "To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles." — Mary Davis
• "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." — Robert Swan
• "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." — Native American Proverb
• "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?" — Henry David Thoreau
• "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land." — Aldo Leopold
• "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." — Gary Snyder
• "The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth." — Maria Montessori
• "Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." — Rachel Carson
• "When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves." — David Orr
• "One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken." — Leo Tolstoy
• "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit." — Edward Abbey
• "The poetry of the Earth is never dead." — John Keats
• "He that plants trees loves others besides himself." — Thomas Fuller
• "The Earth has music for those who listen." — William Shakespeare
• "Each time we plant a tree, we send a message of peace." — Wangari Maathai
• "I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." — Henry David Thoreau
• "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." — Wendell Berry
• "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." — Vincent Van Gogh
• "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." — Aldo Leopold
• "Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." — John Ruskin
• "Going to the mountains is going home." — John Muir
• "A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children." — John James Audubon

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• "In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect." — Alice Walker
• "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit." — Henry David Thoreau
• "It is not the Earth that is in danger, but ourselves." — Jules Renard
• "The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration." — Claude Monet
• "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries." — Jimmy Carter
• "The best friend on Earth of man is the tree." — Frank Lloyd Wright
• "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." — Charles Dickens
• "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe." — Joseph Campbell
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
• "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "If you cut down all the trees, the birds will have nowhere to build their nests." — Chinese Proverb
• "Nature is pleased with simplicity." — Isaac Newton
• "Time spent among trees is never time wasted." — Katrina Mayer
• "To forget how to dig the Earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside." — Anne Frank
• "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." — Martin Luther
• "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." — William Wordsworth
• "The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream." — Thich Nhat Hanh
• "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." — Audrey Hepburn
• "Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species." — Leonardo DiCaprio
• "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." — Rabindranath Tagore
• "In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." — Robert G. Ingersoll
• "Nature knows no pause in progress and development." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• "Without nature, there is no us." — Paul Rosolie
• "The beauty of the natural world lies in the details." — Natalie Angier
• "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little." — Sydney Smith
• "We are part of nature, and when we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves." — Carl Sagan
• "Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude." — Louie Schwartzberg
• "Nature is full of genius, full of divinity." — Henry David Thoreau
• "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion." — Albert Einstein
• "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned will we realize we cannot eat money." — Cree Proverb
• "To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true." — Bertrand Russell
• "When we recognize the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us." — Thich Nhat Hanh
• "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." — Charles Darwin
• "Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." — Standing Bear
• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Nature is loved by what is best in us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." — Ansel Adams
• "A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral." — Theodore Roosevelt
• "Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." — Margaret Mead
• "The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it." — Sylvia Earle
• "An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment." — David Attenborough
• "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings." — John Muir
• "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The Earth is what we all have in common." — Wendell Berry
• "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way." — William Blake
• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
• "Nature is the art of God." — Dante Alighieri
• "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." — Walt Whitman
• "The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask." — Nancy Newhall
• "If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go." — Terry Tempest Williams
• "If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls." — Jane Goodall
• "Nature is the mirror in which we see ourselves." — Carl Jung
• "All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child." — Marie Curie
• "The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it." — Barry Commoner
• "The Earth laughs in flowers." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you." — Alex Trebek
• "To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment." — Jane Austen
• "Take only pictures, leave only footprints, kill nothing but time." — Unknown
• "Mother Nature speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer." — Radhanath Swami
• "The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." — John Muir
• "In wildness is the preservation of the world." — Henry David Thoreau
• "The destruction of nature is the destruction of our very own foundation." — Dalai Lama
• "I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness." — Aldo Leopold
• "Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved." — Phil Harding
• "Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container." — Wallace Stevens
• "The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans." — Jim Fowler
• "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." — Gerard De Nerval
• "It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• "We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically." — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• "There is no better designer than nature." — Alexander McQueen
• "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." — John Muir
• "And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." — John Muir
• "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." — Blaise Pascal
• "Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known." — Carl Sagan
• "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us." — Aldo Leopold
• "The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble." — Blaise Pascal
• "The beauty of nature lies in its simplicity and subtleness." — Debasish Mridha
• "The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship." — Pope John Paul II
• "Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment." — René Dubos
• "The mountains are calling, and I must go." — John Muir
• "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees." — Henry David Thoreau
• "The whole of nature is a unity in diversity, and diversity in unity." — Jan Smuts
• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• "Our ancestors were big believers in preserving the land for future generations." — N. Scott Momaday
• "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." — Dorothy Thompson
• "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" — John Muir
• "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "We are on the Earth to take care of life. We are on the Earth to take care of each other." — Xiye Bastida
• "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Nature itself is the best physician." — Hippocrates
• "Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished." — Rachel Carson
• "Nature is loved by what is best in us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Land really is the best art." — Andy Warhol
• "In wilderness is the preservation of the world." — Henry David Thoreau
• "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do." — Michel de Montaigne
• "There is no forgiveness for acts against nature." — Liv Ullmann
• "The future will be green, or not at all." — Jonathan Porritt
• "To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human." — Terry Tempest Williams
• "For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious." — Martin Luther
• "Keep close to nature’s heart." — John Muir
• "Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal." — Alan Watts
• "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view." — Edward Abbey
• "Nature is the one place where miracles not only happen, but happen all the time." — Thomas Wolfe
• "Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now." — Sylvia Earle
• "Nature has a way of taking us out of our ego." — Thomas Gilovich
• "Mother Nature has the best box of crayons." — Unknown
• "Nature will bear the closest inspection." — Henry David Thoreau
• "Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy." — Isaac Newton
• "All things are bound together. All things connect." — Chief Seattle
• "To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature." — Oglala Sioux
• "It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the Earth." — Rachel Carson
• "Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art." — Vincent Van Gogh
• "Nature does nothing uselessly." — Aristotle
• "The good man is the friend of all living things." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "The river is everywhere." — Herman Hesse
• "Nature never hurries, but everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
• "Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests." — Thornton Wilder
• "Nature abhors a vacuum." — Aristotle
• "In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught." — Baba Dioum
• "The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else." — Barry Commoner
• "The universe is wider than our views of it." — Henry David Thoreau
• "The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for." — Ernest Hemingway
• "Where flowers bloom, so does hope." — Lady Bird Johnson
• "Nature is the greatest place to heal and recharge." — Lailah Gifty Akita
• "Nature does not ask permission, but takes action, and gives." — Marty Rubin
• "The ocean is a mighty harmonist." — William Wordsworth
• "God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence." — Mother Teresa
• "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask." — Nancy Wynne Newhall
• "Earth rejoices in our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word, and every step make the Mother Earth proud of us." — Amit Ray
• "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." — Frank Lloyd Wright
• "There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it." — Charlotte Eriksson
• "The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people and nature." — Unknown
• "The world’s big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." — John Muir
• "Nature loves courage. You make the commitment, and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles." — Terence McKenna
• "The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it." — Ted Trueblood
• "It’s not too late at all. You just don’t yet know what you are capable of." — Mahatma Gandhi
• "Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored." — Terence McKenna
• "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." — Robert Frost
• "Nature never breaks her own laws." — Leonardo da Vinci
• "All our wisdom is stored in the trees." — Santosh Kalwar
• "In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light." — Hans Hofmann
• "By discovering nature, you discover yourself." — Maxime Lagacé
• "A walk in nature walks the soul back home." — Mary Davis
• "The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." — Zeno of Citium
• "Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience." — Leonardo da Vinci
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
• "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." — Marshall McLuhan
• "Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees." — John Muir
• "The natural world is the refuge of the spirit." — Peter Matthiessen
• "There’s something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature." — Rachel Carson
• "Nature is man’s teacher." — William Wordsworth
• "The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it." — Chief Joseph
• "We cannot command nature except by obeying her." — Francis Bacon
• "Nature is pleased with simplicity." — Isaac Newton
• "A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." — William Wordsworth
• "The forest makes your heart gentle." — Pha Pachak
• "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction." — Rachel Carson
• "In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous." — Aristotle
• "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." — Aristotle
• "We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." — Native American Proverb
• "The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy responsibility." — Wendell Berry
• "Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect." — Alice Walker
• "Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.'" — Talmud
• "There are worlds within worlds in the bark of trees and rivers." — Joseph Campbell
• "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." — Abraham Lincoln
• "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu