Nature Quotes to Inspire You this Season

Great Nature Quotes to Inspire You

I shot that photo during our latest trip to Maine. My family had walked ahead a bit and I watched them as they carefully hopped from one tree stump step to the next. The water was still ice-cold since it was mid-spring so our little one was a bit hesitant at first about falling in. I remember my husband telling her “It’s okay. Just go slow and be patient…you can do it!”

While researching nature quotes this week, I read one that reminded me of that day & this particular image I captured…and it’s a wonderful reminder to slow down a bit. Great advice for all of us in this hectic world we live in:

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here are several other great quotes — hope you all find something fun to do outside this week!

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

All good things are wild and free. — Henry David Thoreau

Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

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

 If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
— Vincent van Gogh

The Earth laughs in flowers.  — E.E. Cummings

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
— Margaret Atwood

Flowers at the Chicago Botanic Garden…looking forward to seeing more of these this season!
Flowers at the Chicago Botanic Garden…looking forward to seeing more of these this year!

What adventures do you have planned for this season?

 

World Wildlife Day

The theme of this year’s World Wildlife Day is “The future is in our hands.”

It’s an interesting time on this third-rock-from-the-sun that we call home. So many things have changed in such a short period of time — and not always for the better — but there is still hope if we all pitch in to teach the younger generations to appreciate nature & the world’s creatures.

Have those regular conversations with your kids, nieces, nephews, friends’ kids, grandkids…watch NOVA and NOVA ScienceNOW with them. Watch the wonderful Planet Earth series with them…and be on the lookout for the BBC’s Planet Earth II. It’s recently been confirmed that it will be hosted by the awesome Sir David Attenborough. Heck, just look for the various David Attenborough nature specials that are already out there…our daughter has adored those since toddlerhood.

WorldWildlifeDay | theinspiredparent.com

Take them places. Get outside and let them explore. Help them appreciate, from a young age, the diversity of life on our planet and how all things are interrelated.

A couple of other favorite quotes in celebration of World Wildlife Day:

“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

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” — Charles Darwin

 

 

Celebrating Dr. Seuss Day

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

Celebrating #DrSeussDay with a picture of Boston’s Public Garden from the last time we were there. Be kind to nature so our future generations can continue to enjoy the beauty!

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