Pete Seeger Quotes

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Nature is our chapel.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

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

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

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

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.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

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.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

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.

Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.

I actually really like being in the woods.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

I love to be surrounded by nature.

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.