Walks In Nature 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

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

The mountains are calling and I must go.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

topic: Nature, Mountain, Calling, National Parks, Climbing Mountain

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Nature, Silence, Mountain, Walks In Nature, Granite

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

- John Muir

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Giving, Spires, National Parks

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, I Hate You, Heart, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

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

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

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Nature Beauty, One With 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 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

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

- Fred Allen

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

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Believe, Yield, Inspiring Nature, Mother Nature

He who understands nature walks close with God.

- Edgar Cayce

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

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

topic: Thinking, Return, Mindfulness, Walks In Nature, Walks In The Woods

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Good Morning, Society, Afternoon, Morning Walk, Walks In Nature

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

- Friedensreich Hundertwasser

topic: Men, Guests, Midst, Walks In Nature

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

- Jean Craighead George

source: Jean Craighead George (1990). “On the far side of the mountain”

topic: Wind, Medicine, Air, Mountain Air, Walks In Nature

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

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Country, Art, Children, Walks In Nature, Sauntering

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

- John Muir

topic: Mountain, Taste, Walks, National Parks, Inspirational Mountain Climbing

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Running, Morning, Thinking, Walks In Nature, Walks In The Woods

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Morning, Work, Years, Insensibility, Walks In Nature

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Teacher, Book, Rama, Aloof, Quiet Life

Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right with too much alone time. There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

- Agapi Stassinopoulos

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Fall, People, Extroverts, Walks In Nature

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Happiness, Art, Flower, Walks In Nature, Arranging

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Spiritual, Husband, Silence, Walks In Nature

The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.

- Daniel Levitin

source: "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

topic: Art, Moving, Reading, Reset, Walks In Nature