Best nature & cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.”

People Ifs Energy Nature Realizing Walks Cities Buddhism Spots Sensitive Parks Thrive Get Away Make You Happy Walks In The Park

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.”

Nature Cities Streets Buddhism Crowds All Alone City Streets

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

Care Fall Nature Cities Brain Blood Walking Pressure Complexes Dawn Relief Yellow Hiking Trails City Life Forests And Trees Wailing Coyotes Nature Walk

Author:Hamlin Garland

“A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.”

Nature Cities Tree Snow Broads Palms Avenues Peppers

Book:Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

Source: Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

“The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.”

Together Water Nature Walks Cities Behinds Sun Air Feet Cry Red Rivers Lays Casts Spokes Margins Moaning Seaweed Darkening

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.”

Long Moments Light Nature Church Lines Dark Cities Sun Wall Cold Glory Bird Shining Silent West Winter Clouds Hills Streams Gloom Airy City Walls

Book:Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit

“He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.”

Nature Freedom Cities Clear Caught Autumn Village Flocks Dwellers Autumn Days

Author:Anton Chekhov

“While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!”

People Ifs Happiness Nature Freedom Cities Struggle Authority Flow Waterfalls Unhappy People

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!”

People Doe Nature Cities Flower Rivers Sick Harm Clever Forests Occasions Get Away

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!”

Nature Cities Too Much Mad Clever Temples Madhouses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!”

Want Nature Cities Graveyard

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

People World Want Inspirational Giving Looks Moments Hands Nature Cities Flower Garden Blossoming Flower Garden Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom Inspirational Flower

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”

Should Littles Nature Cities Study Architecture Painter Hills Architect Domes Architecture And Art

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Inspirational Feels Earth Spirit Nature Friendship Community Cities Mountain Garden Rivers Empty Friendship Garden

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.”

Littles Moving Nature Cities Feet Cat Silent Fog Harbors Inspirational Rain Cat Feet

Author:Carl Sandburg

“For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Earth Heaven Nature Natural Common Cities Watches Wine Strive Bread Cake Glimpse Monk

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”

Enjoy Nature Cities Silence Beauty Arms Welcome Reach Out Sheep Dread Crowded Fleeing Her Beauty Crowded Cities

Author:Khalil Gibran

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