Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

I've tried very hard to stay grounded with my family, my ol' buddies, nature, music, and creativity.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

It's incredibly important to my spirits and mental health that I come back to Minnesota and not be surrounded constantly with Hollywood life. Spending time in the backyard, helping out in the garden, going out to the lakes, reminds me of what's important and allows me to realign myself.

I love the paddle board. It's just a really good way to recenter. Being on the water is really peaceful, and you have to focus on your balance and holding yourself up. Doing a little bit of yoga under the sun on the water is really, really magical.

I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.

Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

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.

One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

I always notice flowers.

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.