Want to share your love for nature on social media?
Post nature quotes!
They’re perfect as Instagram captions to go with your photos.
Or copy and paste ones of these short nature quotes to make a graphic! You can make picture quotes online or on your mobile device with apps to add text to photos.
Post your creations during Poetic Earth Month (April), on Earth Day (April 22), or any day.
Because it’s always a good day to celebrate the beauty of nature!
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Love for nature quotes
This section and the next have some great “connect with nature” quotes. Enjoy!
People have to love the Earth before they save it, so love is the key.
~Bill Jacobs
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
~Henry David Thoreau
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~John Muir
I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior.
~Darryl Cherney
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
~Francis Bacon
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
~Marshall McLuhan
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~Native American Proverb
The earth is what we all have in common.
~Wendell Berry
You might also enjoy these short flower quotes.
Or keep scrolling for more nature quotes!
Nature quotes about life
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
~Chief Seattle
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.
~Charles A. Lindbergh
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~Albert Einstein
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out was really going in.
~John Muir
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~Juvenal
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
Have you seen this collection of Spring quotes?
Or keep going for nature quotes about trees.
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Nature quotes about trees and the outdoors
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
~Thomas Fuller
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
~Lord Byron
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~Bill Vaughn
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
~Pam Shaw
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower.
~William Blake
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Or keep scrolling to find save the Earth quotes below.
Quotes about protecting nature
What you love, you protect! Here are some pointed quotes about saving our Earth. Ideal as Earth Day quotes – or anytime you want to encourage others to adopt sustainable living.
Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something.
~Carl Sagan
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
~Henry David Thoreau
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.
~Robert Orben
There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
~Paul McCartney
For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
~Tom McMillan
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
~Ross Perot
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
~Dennis Gabor
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
~Barry Commoner
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
~Howard Zinn
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
~Dr. Seuss
We have met the enemy and he is us.
~Walt Kelly
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Conclusion
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