10 Great Nature Quotes
A Compilation of Unique Quotes About Nature and Travel
“Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption. I can prepare a tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest.”
- Ueda Akinari
Ueda Akinari was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet in 18th-century Japan. He was best known for his tales of the supernatural.
“For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more, for those who have not, no words of mine can even describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.”
- Jane Goodall
Dr. Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and anthropologist known for her exceptional research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She is widely considered the world’s foremost expert on these incredible animals having spent 60 years studying their social and family interactions. Her work in animal conservation is unparalleled.
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
- Zhuangzi
Zhuang Zhou, commonly known as Zhuangzi was an influential Chinese philosopher who had a metaphysical view of immortality believing that man may die, but his essence as part of the universal essence lives on forever.
“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.”
- Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist who was famous for her essays on modern culture. She wrote and directed four films, and wrote several plays.
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was a conservationist who dramatically expanded the national park system. He used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands by creating the United States Forest Service and establishing 5 national parks, 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game reserves and 18 national monuments.
“Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a story teller.”
- Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, born in 1304, was a Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in Afro-Eurasia, more than any other explorer in pre-modern history covering over 72,000 miles, more than four times the distance Marco Polo explored.
“The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.”
- Tom Brown, Jr.
Tom Brown, Jr. is an acclaimed outdoorsman, tracker, teacher and author. As a child, Stalking Wolf, an Apache elder he called grandfather, taught him wilderness survival skills and how to value our place in the natural order which Brown teaches in his writings. His new book Guide to Healing the Earth shares simple ways in which we can each help heal and save this planet.
“Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow there man’s spirit is fed and poets grow.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American poet and essayist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection on simple living in nature. He is renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism believing in the importance of living a spiritually meaningful life in nature.
“Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.”
- Paul George
Paul George, popularly known by his nickname “PG13",” is an American professional basketball player who plays for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. I heard this quote and loved it and was admittedly surprised to hear it came from a professional athlete.
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
- Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine was a bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) and a renowned theologian, writer, preacher and rhetorician. He’s one of the most important early figures in the development of Western Christianity, a major figure in bringing Christianity to dominance in a previously pagan Roman Empire. He is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.
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