What are your favorite nature-themed quotes? One I recently found and really love is this; ”Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu

That sounds so funny imagining him saying that

: ) Blue Planet, i think it was.

We’ve already had quite a few John Muir quotes, but here’s a couple of my favorites that haven’t been mentioned yet: “Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” I don’t know about losing my mind (I’m most attentive and curious when I’m out in the wild), but I agree with the general…

As long as we’re doing John Muir: “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”

Looks like John Muir is getting a lot of “action” here. This is one of my favorites: “Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magn…

Welcome to the forum! And, thanks for contributing that John Muir quote. He had quite a mind.

Not sure if this counts. “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” Bob Dylan

The multi-legged organisms that go crunch when you step on them on the sidewalk. Christopher Marshall, OSU Department of Integrative Biology

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oksanaetal April 2, 2025, 11:23am 58

“Hope is the thing with feathers”
– Emily Dickinson

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