Robert Redford Quotes

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

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

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

Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

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

For me, I like to keep it real simple; I just worry about myself, the waves, and my surroundings.

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

Study nature, not books.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

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?