Nature- and the wildlife contained within it- has been the ultimate inspiration for authors, artists, musicians, and poets throughout the ages. So if the sight of a cardinal on a branch or a soaring eagle leaves you deeply moved, you’re in good company!
Don’t stress if you can’t put your admiration into words. These quotes about nature, birds, and the beauty of our world can help you express that feeling.
Quotes About Birds
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” – Claude Monet
“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.” – Claude Maxwell MacDonald
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” – Robert Lynd
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali
“How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Life in the Woods
“May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living” – e. e. Cummings
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” – C. S. Lewis
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake
“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.” – P. D. James
Quotes About Nature
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” –Claude Monet
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” –Henry David Thoreau
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” –John Keats
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” –John Lennon
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” –Vincent van Gogh
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –Henri Matisse
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg
“I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” –Anne Frank
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” –Laura Ingalls Wilder