Quotes About Nature

The wild has been teaching long before we were listening. These 13 quotes about nature draw on mountains, rivers, seasons and silence — reminders that we're part of something older and larger. Step outside after reading.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. — Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. — Rumi
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Rumi
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. — Confucius
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away. — Li Bai
The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away.
Li Bai
We sit together, the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains. — Li Bai
We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.
Li Bai
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same. — Kamo no Chōmei
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.
Kamo no Chōmei
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. — Kim Dae-jung
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Kim Dae-jung
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
No man ever steps in the same river twice. — Heraclitus
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
Heraclitus
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