13 Quotes to Inspire Our Connection with Nature.

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Via Lynn Hasselberger

on Sep 20, 2012

13 Quotes to Inspire Our Connection with Nature.

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Direct contact with nature can soothe us, elevate our mood.

These nature quotes will hopefully inspire you to touch nature today. It won’t bite (well, I guess it could if you plan on cornering a racoon). It will most likely nourish.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
~ Calvin Coolidge

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
~ William Shakespeare

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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
~ John Updike, The Centaur

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Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
~ Eckkhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Lynn Hasselberger lives in Chicagoland with her son, husband and two cats. She loves sunrises, running, yoga, chocolate, reading and writing, and has a voracious appetite for comedy. The founder of myEARTH360.com, Lynn is also a marketing consultant and writes for her blog I Count for myEARTH. She's a treehugger and social media addict who you'll most likely find tweeting excessively and obsessively (@LynnHasselbrgr, @myEARTH360 and @IC4ME) or posting on facebook. She hopes to make the world a better place, have more fun, re-develop her math skills and overcome her fear of public speaking. Like her writing? Subscribe to her posts.

Norman Blair says:

September 21, 2012 at 14:00

I love it – some of my most special moments have come in the ecstasy of greenery: hugging trees is good for our health. X

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