Nature's Temples - My Serenity.

I only went out for a walk

and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,

for going out,

I found,

was really going in.

~John Muir

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature,

which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

~Henry David Thoreau

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.

  ~Author unknown

Look at the trees,

look at the birds,

look at the clouds,

look at the stars...

and if you have eyes

you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

Everything is simply happy.

Trees are happy for no reason;

they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents

and they are not going to become rich

and they will never have any bank balance.

Look at the flowers - for no reason.

It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

~Osho

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

I remember a hundred lovely lakes,

and recall the fragrant breath of pine

and fir and cedar and poplar trees.

The trail has strung upon it,

as upon a thread of silk,

opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

It has given me blessed release from care and worry

and the troubled thinking of our modern day.

It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood

and benumbs my brain,

I seek relief in the trail;

and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn,

my cares fall from me

 - I am happy.

~Hamlin Garland