30 Incredible Jaw-Dropping Photos of Nature

The Earth is absolutely beautiful. There are times when we forget just how massive our world truly is and all the wonderful things found within it. There are massive waterfalls, canyons as far as the eye can see, caves, fields of green, forests with trees stretching hundreds of miles and so much more.

I've created this hub to show you just how beautiful our world can be when we take the time to look at it. If anything, these photos will certainly compel you to take a step outside and draw in the amazement that is the world we live in.

Click on each to see larger pictures - it's worth it!

Before you go, I'd like to leave you with a few quotes about nature that really put the world into perspective. After all, I believe that being closer to nature brings us closer to ourselves.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir , 1938

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Life , 22 December 1967

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~William Shakespeare