forest bathing Quotes

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

I can kind of go into the wild places and immediately feel rested and rejuvenated.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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?

You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.