Rachel Carson Quotes

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

I like rain, actually.

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.