Quotes About Nature

The herb border ran wild, and the air smelled wonderful; the breezes often stirred the piney, mossy smell of the forest with the sharp smell of herbs, mixed in the warm smell of fresh bread from the kitchen, and then flung the result over the meadow like a handful of new gold coins.

It made her laugh - weeding with her fingernails - and the real weight of the earth comforted her.... She knew this garden would do it's best for her. It didn't matter how she knew.

I am not strong enough, she said. She had never said this aloud to anyone before—anyone but her bees. I know too little, and I do not learn fast enough. And there are not enough hours in the day. And the land has been bent away from true too far and for too long.

In all but killing terms, the battle ended in the last days of September and the main reason it ended was mud.

Give a prayer of thanks for all you have. Work on your gratitude list. Listen to some great music. Watch the sun come up, or perhaps go for a quick walk in natural surroundings if you feel up to it.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

There is nothing in the world more valuable than friendship. Those who banish it from their lives remove as it were the sun from the earth, because of all of nature's gifts, it is the most beautiful and the most pleasing.

Yesterday you told me that life is a growth school, Father Mike. Every person and every experience comes to us to teach us the lesson we most need to learn at that particular point of our journey. We can either awaken to this act of nature, or we can turn a blind eye to it and, in doing so, keep repeating the mistakes of the past until the pain becomes so great that we have no choice but to change.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

We are born perfect, full of love, potential, self-faith and brilliance. But from the moment we are born, we begin to walk away from our authentic nature and take on the false beliefs, limiting assumptions and fears of the world around us.

watch the sun rise every few days

vigorous walking in natural surroundings

A caterpillar cannot remain in the cocoon forever. A butterfly must emerge when the time is right. Just trust in nature's timing; it's not on the same clock as you. Remember that always. Your pain will pass—it always does.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul

Cuando admiro la maravilla de un ocaso o la belleza de la luna, toda mi alma se ensancha adorando al Creador. MAHATMA GANDHI

La vita dataci dalla natura è breve, ma la memoria di una vita ben spesa è eterna.

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." —Cicero

God, I love butterflies," the billionaire said wistfully. "And rainbows, shooting stars, full moons and glorious sunsets. Why be alive if you're not going to be totally alive?

Una vida tranquila de reclusión en el campo, con la posibilidad de ser útil a aquellas personas a quienes es fácil hacer el bien y que no están acostumbradas a que nadie se preocupe por ellas. Después trabajar, con la esperanza de que sirva para algo; luego el descanso, la naturaleza, los libros, la música, el amor al prójimo… En eso consiste mi idea de la felicidad.

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

When you are doing the right things and living the way nature intended you to live, abilities you were not aware you had become engaged and you liberate the fullness of the person you really are.

Sin embargo, el instinto es más sabio que el intelecto.

life's greatest pleasures are often life's simplest ones.