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Spending time in nature13 quotes
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake · 1807There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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. — Lord Byron · 1818The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974Drunk we lie down in empty hills,
heaven and earth our quilt and pillow. — Li Bai · 762In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851All 13 quotes →Nature9 quotes
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake · 1807There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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. — Lord Byron · 1818The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard of Clairvaux · 1147It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert · 1871All 9 quotes →Man and nature4 quotes
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake · 1807Drunk we lie down in empty hills,
heaven and earth our quilt and pillow. — Li Bai · 762It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain. — Francis Kilvert · 1871I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. — Wendell Berry · 1968Solitude2 quotes
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on 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. — Lord Byron · 1818I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Wilderness2 quotes
In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Climbing mountains1 quote
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974Experiencing things1 quote
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867Getting away1 quote
To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven. — John Keats · 1817Hiking1 quote
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974Men1 quote
What are men to rocks and mountains? — Jane Austen · 1813The night sky1 quote
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1867The sky1 quote
To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven. — John Keats · 1817Zen1 quote
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig · 1974