NATURE QUOTATIONS

Albert Einstein
The joy of looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Chief Seattle
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together... all things connect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Orison Swett Marden

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Charles Panati
We are the environment.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Bernoulli
Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Johannes Kepler
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Edward Everett Hale

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot
do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.

Adapted from the “Quotations on the Environment and Nature” portion of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) website, available at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/quotes/qtnature.htm.

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