Nature Walk Quotes:

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.107, BookBaby

topic: Good Morning, Nature, Famous Inspirational, Beautiful Nature, Funny Good Morning

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

- Soren Kierkegaard

source: Soren Kierkegaard's letter to Henriette Kierkegaard (1847), as quoted in Soren Kierkegaard "Letters and Documents" (translated by Henrik Rosenmeier), www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

topic: Walking Away, Hiking, Entrepreneur, Feet And Walking, Sauntering

All good things are wild and free.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: I Hate You, Independence, Liberty, Wild Free, Sauntering

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot

source: Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Journey And Destination, Journey Of Self Discovery

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

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

source: John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

topic: Nature, Flower, Adventure, Journeys And Paths, Inspirational Earth

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

- Paul Scott Mowrer

source: Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”

topic: Country, Taken, Pieces, Tempo, Walking Fast

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Sitting Still, Feelings, Everyday, Feet And Walking, Trekking

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

- John Muir

source: "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

topic: Travel, Home, Tired, Wildness, National Parks

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Wallace Stevens

source: "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction". Poem by Wallace Stevens, 1942.

topic: Truth, Hiking, Lakes, Morning Walk, Walks In Nature

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

- Hamlin Garland

topic: Nature, Fall, Blood, Wailing, Nature Walk

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

topic: Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning, Life Is Simple, Spiritual Nature

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

- Paul Dudley White

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Healthy Habits, Spiritual Health

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

- Fred Allen

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Anger, Journeys And Paths, Strolling

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

- John Muir

topic: Life, Beautiful, Death, Beautiful Nature, Meadows

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

- Hamlin Garland

topic: Nature, Blessed, Thinking, Nature Walk

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

- Hamlin Garland

topic: Nature, Sunset, Fire, Modern Day, Mountain Lakes

He who understands nature walks close with God.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Love, Life, Walks, Walks In Nature, Nature Walk

I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.

- Paul Walker

source: Source: www.fanpop.com

topic: Mother, Passion, Camping, Nature Walk

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

- Joanne Woodward

topic: Daughter, Mother, Monday, Nature Walk

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

- Susan Cain

topic: Party, Boys, Long, Nature Walk

Those who understand nature walk with God.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Nature, Walking With God, Walks, Nature Walk