Nature Quotations Quotes

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

~ Sheniz Janmohamed

Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Nature hides its secrets in wisdom, the universe hides its secrets in love.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t be afraid of being alone, a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception, to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.

~ Anurag Shourie

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan