Focus Quote by Jennifer Ackerman

“Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the…

— Lorraine Anderson

“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls…

— Richard Louv

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind…

— Ellen Meloy

“These findings show that nature can have a calming and restorative effect, giving our mind a rest from the intense and mentally fatiguing focus…

— Noel Brick

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we become conscious…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

— Barbara Sher

“Nature offers splendor and artistry for us to appreciate. Opening our senses reveals we are surrounded by magnificence.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human…

— Richard Louv

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with…

— Kamala Markandaya