This document consists of a collection of quotes about nature and the environment. The quotes express appreciation for nature's beauty, the importance of observing and learning from nature, and nature's ability to inspire creativity and lift the human spirit. Many of the quotes reference specific aspects of the natural world like flowers, trees, birds, and seascapes. Overall the quotes portray nature as something to admire, draw wisdom from, and find peace in.

36. Insights

37. “Keep your eyes to the sunshine and
you cannot see the shadows.”
-Helen Keller
Photo: Zebra Longwing
Canaveral National Seashore

38. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an
answer, it sings because it has a song.”
-Maya Angelou
Photo: Pine Warbler
Merritt Island NWR

39. “Look deep into nature and then
you will understand everything better”.
-Albert Einstein
Photo: American Avocet, Merritt Island NWR

40. Photo: Spiderwort
Indian River Lagoon Preserve
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
- Gerard De Nerval

41. “The poetry of the earth
is never dead.”
― John Keats
Photo: Resurrection Fern
(before and after rain)
Indian River Lagoon Preserve

42. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Painted Bunting, Merritt Island NWR

43. “The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or touched – they must be
felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
Photo: Sunrise, Merritt Island NWR

44. “Nature is a haunted house; art is a
house that tries to be haunted.”
-Emily Dickinson
Photo: Purple Sea Urchin
Ponce Inlet North Jetty

45. “Just living is not enough………...
one must have sunshine, freedom,
and a little flower.”
-Hans Christian Andersen
Photo: Morning Glory
Turtle Mound, Canaveral NS

46. “Wherever you go, no matter what
the weather, always bring your own
sunshine.”
-Anthony J. D’Angelo
Photo: Sunrise, Ann Arbor, MI

47. “If you truly love Nature, you
will find beauty everywhere.”
-Vincent van Gogh
Photo: Acorn Worm fecal castings
Disappearing Island, Ponce Inlet

48. “There are always flowers for those
who want to see them.”
-Henri Matisse
Photo: Pink Purslane
Merritt Island NWR

49. “Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
-Langston Hughes
Photo: Rain Clouds over Volusia County

50. “Earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Tasselflower
Indian River Lagoon Preserve

51. “Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Gopher Tortoise
Canaveral National Seashore

52. “Wilderness holds answers to questions
that man has not yet learned to ask.”
-Nancy Newhall
Photo: Spider Web, Merritt Island NWR

53. “Spring is Nature’s way of saying
‘Let’s party!’”
-Robin Williams
Photo: Great Egret in breeding plumage
Indian River, New Smyrna Beach

54. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever.”
-Jacques Cousteau
Photo: Atlantic Ocean Surf
New Smyrna Beach

55. “Our task is to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
Photo: Acorn Worm Fecal Castings
Disappearing Island, Indian River
Photo: Five-lined Skink
New Smyrna Beach

56. “Heaven is under our feet
as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Ceraunus Blue Butterfly
Merritt Island NWR

57. “All those who believe in me share
in the freedom I feel when I fly.”
-John Denver
Photos: Royal Tern
Bald Eagle
Northern Gannet
New Smyrna Beach Shore

58. “In all things of nature, there
is something of the marvelous.”
-Aristotle
Photo: Cloudless Sulphur &
Cape Honeysuckle
Canaveral National Seashore

59. “In nature nothing is created, nothing
is lost, everything changes.”
― Antoine Lavoisier
Photo: Caterpillar and Adult
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Canaveral National Seashore

60. “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Photo: Common Baskettail
Canaveral National Seashore

61. “Nature always wears
the colors of the spirit.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Wood Duck, Volusia County

62. “Everything comes in time to him
who knows how to wait. There is
nothing stronger than these two:
patience and time, they will do it
all.” -Leo Tolstoy
Photo: Live Oak Tree and Acorn
Canaveral National Seashore

63. “Everything in nature invites us
constantly to be what we are.”
-Gretel Ehrlich
Photo: Blue Land Crab
New Smyrna Beach

64. “Every living organism is fulfilled
when it follows the right path for its
own nature.” -Marcus Aurelius
Photo: Scarlet Tanager in Mulberry Tree
Canaveral National Seashore

65. “I like this place and would
willingly waste my time in it.”
-William Shakespeare
Photo:
Photo: Wetland Restoration Area
Marine Discovery Center
New Smyrna Beach

66. “We need the tonic of wildness....
we can never have enough of nature.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Photo: River Otter
Merritt Island NWR

67. “Every blade in the field - every
leaf in the forest - lays down its
life in its season as beautifully as
it was taken up.”
-Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Nature’s Recycling Center
Volusia County

68. “Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the wind
longs to play with your hair.”
-Kahlil Gibran
Photo:
Windblown Grass Tracks in the Sand

69. “Those honor nature well, who teach
that she can speak on everything.”
-Blaise Pascal
Photo: Chad Truxall
Marine Discovery Center

72. “Live in each season as it passes.
Resign yourself to the influence
of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau

73. “Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom
another.”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

74. “Men argue. Nature acts.”
― Voltaire

75. “Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her
business better than we do.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne: Essays