Wanderlust & Travel Quotes

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

“...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.”

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

“Nature answers every question.”

“Amongst the flowers you always feel yourself you are endlessly far away from all the dangers!”

“Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.”

“A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.”

“Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies.”

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”

“Wonder is all around us, when we know how to look. It's often in the simple spaces; a meadow, a stream, an unturned rock.”

“He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!”

William Shakespeare

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“The earth is my home, the journey is my destination.”

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.”

“A lasting architecture has to have roots.”

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

“The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.”

“He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.”

“When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.”

“Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”

“And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.”

“If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.”

“Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.”

“Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.”

“Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.”

“In riding a horse, we borrow freedom”

“Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere”

“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”

“The stars are dead, but their memories fill the sky”

“Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.”

“One swallow alone does not make the summer.”

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.”

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“The sea hath no king but God alone.”

“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.”

“If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.”

“No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.”

“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure”

“One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.”

“Never stop exploring... with Mother Nature by your side, the possibilities are endless.”

“I have nothing to do today but to smell the freshness of flowers and feel the joy of life.”

“Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”

“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”

“Nature will always be nature.”

“With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.”

“The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“The universe is a mirror—if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy.”

“Learn from the sun; it is warm to everyone, and is therefore never in short supply of those who adore it.”

“We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.”

“Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.”

“all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.”

“Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.”

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.”

“We don't teach flowers to bloom”

“When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.”

“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”

“Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself”

“Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”

“If you observe nature daily, it brings harmony with you and God.”

“The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly”

“Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents”

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

“The love for nature is the well-spring of life.”

“A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.”

“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.”

“Roses bloom whether you praise them or not.”

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal”

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”

“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”

“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”

“If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone.”

“The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.”

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“I would rather regret the risks that did not work out than the chances I did not take at all.”

“If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.”

“Life in us is like the water in a river.”

Henry David Thoreau

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“I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.”

“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”

“The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.”

“No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.”

“A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?”

“The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.”

“Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God.”

“Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.”

“The earth is the Lord's.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

“To travel is to live.”