Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I feel best in nature or near nature.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

On all the peaks lies peace.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

I love paddle boarding. It gives me that feeling of peace as well as an opportunity to enjoy nature's true beauty.

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.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.