The Best Spirituality is Often Just a Walk in Nature

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Song: Ady's Song by Colin Lake

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct ... View MoreSong: Ady's Song by Colin Lake

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~William Blake

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 1966

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

Nature is my medicine. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street

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

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleonora Duse

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~John Fowles

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896

You 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

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ~Dogen

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Dr. Harmander Singh wrote at September 1, 2011

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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~Martin Luther.

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Last Update on September 1, 2011 by Dr. Harmander Singh