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Walt Whitman Quotes about Nature

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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman
Happiness, Nature, Carpe Diem
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman
Beautiful, Nature, Rude
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Stars, Believe
'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass
"Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman
Beauty, Nature, Morning
Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Children, Hands
'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Sleep, Air
Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Travel, Flower
Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Ease, Standing
'Me imperturbe'

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman
Nature, Business, Simplicity
1876-77 Speciman Days, 'New Themes Entered Upon'.

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