Quotes About Nature

To make the most of my time in the outdoors, sometimes I'll treat walking through nature as more of a moving meditation. I'll listen to something slow and positive like Rising Appalachia, Trevor Hall, Nahko, or East Forest (all worth checking out if you don't know them), or simply put on a Pandora station for yoga workout music.

It's hard to feel down when you're out in the natural world, and there's a reason for that. Scientists would call it quantum physics,

The subgenual prefrontal cortex (sgPFC) is actually a part of the brain that's responsible for our self-image. When you're in a calm, positive place, this section of your mind is relatively quiet. But when it gets stimulated, you start to think negative thoughts about yourself. In other words, controlling the impulses in your brain is an essential part of any mind/ body fitness plan. And how do you do it? Simply by spending a little time in nature.

Ellos no querían hablar sobre la guerra, suponía él, querían hablar sobre sus tíos, sus primos, sus vecinos en aquellos pueblos que abandonaron hacía tanto tiempo; sobre cómo era el olor de la tierra en su hogar, el ruido de la lluvia al caer en ráfagas sobre las copas de los árboles, los colores chillones de la campiña en flor.

Film as a medium has limitations, you must understand its strong points and its shortcomings. Conflict and movement are close to its soul. But peace, hope and great truths are all of a static nature and can be but poorly served by the film medium.

Winter, then spring, summer, and soon autumn. All seasons are one, ice-cold, featureless, a hell of dreariness.

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

You see now how little nature requires, to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things, and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence, and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briers and thorns.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

The need for more makes many people unhappy because it can never be fully satisfied. Interestingly, a recent study about some very poor nations found that those citizens experienced happiness by being connected to their community and family and spending time in nature.

The need for more makes many people unhappy because it can never be fully satisfied. Interestingly, a recent study about some very poor nations found that those citizens experienced happiness by being connected to their community and family and spending time in nature. For them, money played a minimal role in their subjective sense of well-being.[

All the earth is a grave, and nought escapes it; nothing is so perfect that it does not fall and disappear. The rivers, brooks, fountains and waters flow on, and never return to their joyous beginnings; they hasten on to the vast realms of Tlaloc, and the wider they spread between their marges the more rapidly do they mould their own sepulchral urns. That which was yesterday is not to-day; and let not that which is to-day trust to live to-morrow.

People born in the fall and winter are more likely to be larks;

it is springtime and I am blind"... Clarity depends on contrast - 134

The course of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom. And there's a reason for that—because it's in our nature to push for it

economic accomplishment, not to mention personal fulfillment, more often swings on a different hinge. It depends not on keeping our nature submerged but on allowing it to surface. It requires resisting the temptation to control people—and instead doing everything we can to reawaken their deep-seated sense of autonomy.

I used to believe that synchronizing with others was merely a mechanical process. Now I believe that it requires a sense of belonging, rewards a sense of purpose, and reveals a part of our nature.

Owls, meanwhile, display some darker tendencies.

I'm convinced that Type I is the natural state—the default setting—for most human beings. By contrast, Type X behavior is something people learn through their experiences

Science and Buddhism are very similar," the Dalai Lama told some of us at a press conference before the main event, "because they are exploring the nature of reality, and both have the goal to lessen the suffering of mankind.