PEACE

LOOKING AT PICTURES OF NATURE IS DIFFERENT THAN EXPERIENCING NATURE

EXPERIENCING NATURE CAN IMPACT ALL OF THE SENSES

AND CAN BRING A DEGREE OF PEACE

BUT SOMETIMES PICTURES OF NATURE CAN BRING PEACE

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. Rachel Carson

Leave the road, take the trails. Pythagoras

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie

The earth has music for those who listen. William Shakespeare

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. David Attenborough

Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. Brooke Hampton

Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude. Louie Schwartzberg

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. Buddha

"For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." Wendell Berry

Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri

How to Find Peace in Nature

take a walk in a local green space.

pay attention to the plants and animals that cross your path.

bring a picnic to the park.

go barefoot in your backyard

sit beneath a tree

visit the water's edge

put up a birdfeeder

garden

lay on your back and stare at the clouds

look up and let the soft rain fall on your face

examine the different hues of green in trees

listen to a stream

MARGARET BOURNE

I find inner peace in nature

I’ve been an avid hiker my whole life. From the time I first strapped on a backpack and headed into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I was hooked on the experience, loving the way being in nature cleared my mind and helped me to feel more grounded and peaceful.

1. Being in nature decreases stress

2. Nature makes you happier and less brooding

3. Nature relieves attention fatigue and increases creativity.

4. Nature may help you to be kind and generous

5. Nature makes you “feel more alive”

We are spending more time indoors and online. But recent studies suggest

that nature can help our brains and bodies to stay healthy. Jill Suttie

Finding Peace in Nature

October 1, 2021 by Springhouse Village

The idea of finding peace in nature is hardly new, but it certainly has some notable fans from a wide array of fields. According to the renowned Greek philosopher Aristotle: “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Albert Einstein, the scientist famous for developing the theory of relativity, urged, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Meanwhile, poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who often wrote on nature and made his living finding just the right words, kept his commentary simple: “Lose yourself in nature and find peace.” Clearly, this is a prime example of great minds thinking alike.

Finding peace in nature isn’t simply an idea that sounds appealing. There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that spending time in green spaces improves your mental and physical health in multiple ways. What do you need to do to enjoy this benefit? It’s easy to find an option that suits your style.

The Benefits of Spending Time with Nature

As Select Health reports, many studies have found proof that spending time outdoors can offer benefits:

Better memory.

Better concentration.

Less pain. Less stress.

Stronger immune system.

Better mood.

Age gracefully.

"Nature is pleased with simplicity." Sir Isaac Newton

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. And some see no nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." William Blake

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." Claude Monet

"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." Anne Frank

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.” Albert Einstein

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” Anne Frank