Quotes About Gratitude For Nature

#1. Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Arthur Helps

#2. Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#3. We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Satish Kumar

#4. Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.

Erica Goros

#5. The more grateful we feel, the happier we become. This is because gratitude helps us realize we are all connected. Nobody feels like an island when feeling grateful. Gratitude awakens us to the truth of our interdependent nature.

Haemin Sunim

#6. Nature deserves the greatest gratitude for our existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I find beauty in every sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.

Isabel Allende

#9. A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Nan Fairbrother

#10. How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green ... the flowers are more fragrant ... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

Orison Swett Marden

#11. I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.

Marcel Proust

#12. It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

Masaru Emoto

#13. No matter what each day brings -- the trials and tribulations that may cross my path, the turmoil, the ugliness -- when I look at this picture I'm reminded that life is precious and there is still beauty in this world.

Ryan Troske

#14. I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

#15. I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ...

Teresa Of Avila

#16. It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Ouida

#17. Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.

Carolyn Baker

#18. Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Napoleon Hill

#19. Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?

Louis Schwartzberg

#20. To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

Morihei Ueshiba

#21. The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied consciousness until you understand that you have to be grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you have, then Mother Nature will give you more.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#22. Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself.

Deepak Chopra

#23. It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Zora Neale Hurston

#24. It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

John Stuart Mill

#25. Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

#26. When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

Ramana Maharshi

#27. You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

S R Nathan

#28. In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Elizabeth Goudge

#29. Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.

Arundhati Roy

#30. Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#31. Creation is grace: a statement at which we should like best to pause in reverence, fear and gratitude. God does not grudge the existence of the reality distinct from Himself; He does not grudge it its own reality, nature and freedom.

Karl Barth

#32. You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

William Rotsler

#33. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

#34. My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Oliver Sacks