Henry David Thoreau Quotes

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.

I love being out in nature. That is really important. It's everything actually.

I love generally being out in nature. It is just so amazing.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move against nature you will be in misery. Misery means moving against nature, and misery is a good indication - if you understand. It shows that somewhere you are going wrong, that's all. Put things right! Misery is a help. Anguish, anxiety, tension, are indications that somewhere something is going wrong. You are not with the total. Somewhere you have started your own private movement - and then you will be in misery.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.