Nature has an amazing peace which we, as humans, try to emulate daily. To help us be as peaceful as nature is, here are 20 amazing life lessons nature has taught us:
1. Even During A Storm, Nature is Somehow Always at Peace
“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 away form you like the leaves of Autumn.” – John Muir
2. Nature is Content with Itself
“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.” – Bertrand Russell
3. Nature Understands That All Things Have A Purpose Under God
“Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily, visiting the natural world.” –Catlin Matthews
4. Natures Shows Us That God is Always With Us
“Nature is the art of God.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Nature Provides Us With Unconditional Love
“Love comforeth like sunshine after the rain.” – Shakespeare
6. Nature Has an Endless Amount of Patience
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
7. Nature Reminds Us That All Good Things Do Not Require Money
“The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.” – Plautis
8. Nature Brings “Solace in All Troubles”
“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 fell 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
9. Nature Reminds Us That Bigger is Not Always Better
“Some of nature’s most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.” – Rachel Carson
10. Nature Reminds Us That Beauty Exists Within Ourselves
“Thought we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Nature Reminds Us That “Just to Be” is Sometimes Better Than Doing
“Sounds of the wind or sounds of the sea, make me happy just to be.” – June Polis
12. As in Nature, so in Life, Do the Bad Times — and Weather — Roll In and Roll Out in Due Course
“The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.” – Carl Sandburg
13. Nature is Powerful and Wise in Its Silence
“God is the friend of the silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon and sun, how they move in silence.” – Mother Teresa
14. Nature “Thrives On A Little Kindness”
“Flowers are like human beings…they thrive on a little kindness.” – Fred Streeter
15. Nature Also Thrives on Freedom
“The ocean…cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.” – Scott Holman
16. Nature Thrills with Simplicity
“How easy and simple it is to live enjoyable when the simple, interminable blue of the sky, with its long wisps of white clouds, become a pleasant thing to behold, a thing of beauty that thrills you every time you care to look skyward.” – John Schindler
17. Nature is an Endless Source of Inspiration
“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
18. Nature Has an Ability to Not Only Heal Itself After A Storm, But All Living Things Around and In It
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.” – Rachel Carson
19. Nature Finds the “Good in Everything”
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -William Shakespeare
20. Nature is Content with the Cycle of Life
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats
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