Contemplation Quote by Steven Rinella Download Open image “In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.” — Steven Rinella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplation Find Meditation Religion Spiritual Spiritual Redemptive Things Spiritual Woods Worthy Contemplation
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady. — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Forests are places where we can get back in touch with our inner selves, where we can walk on soft ground, breathe in natural… — Pierre Lieutaghi Copy Share Image
There is a limit to political and public tolerance for sacrifice on behalf of wildlife. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I have done some overseas hunting, including in New Zealand and with Amerindians in the jungles of South America. In those cases, I was… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Deer won't trust their eyes, and they won't trust their ears, but they'll always trust their sense of smell. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you couldn't make… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard time holding… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Microthreats are hardly confined to the wilderness. From the common cold to the Ebola virus, various nasties could be waiting to pounce on you… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If you strip away someone's connection to the landscape, you risk losing their support as well. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
My first two kids were born in New York City, but there is a lot of exploration to be done just learning the natural… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If I could be attacked by a grizzly and not be killed, or maimed in a way that made women afraid of me, I'd… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image