Sarah McLachlan Quotes

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.