Life, Travel, and Nature Quotes
In this post, I’m sharing some of my favorite nature quotes that capture that magical connection between people and the natural world. So if you’re in need of a little reminder to slow down and soak it all in, keep reading.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
Mary Oliver
with your one wild and precious life?”
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
John Muir
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”
Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
“But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you’ll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
Audrey Hepburn
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret.
James Kavanaugh, There are men too gentle to live among wolves
We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well…
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide…”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
Sylvia Path
“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it…
Ram Dass
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
“We need the tonic of wildness… We can never have enough of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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Hello, my name is Amber! I'm an Arizona-based traveler obsessed with nature and history.
