A quote can take something that seems so difficult to explain and makes it wonderfully simple. Our bodies’ have an innate ability to heal within nature and that can be challenging to explain or understand. This collection of quotes simply and beautifully expresses the physical and mental healing powers that come from our connection with nature.

“Nature itself is the best physician.”

Hippocrates

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”

Paracelsus

“In clinical studies, we have seen that 2 hours of nature sounds a day significantly reduce stress hormones up to 800% and activates 500 to 600 DNA segments known to be responsible for healing and repairing the body.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza

“Walk in nature and feel the healing power of the trees.“

Anthony William

“The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.”

Angela Lindvall

“Place your hands into soil to feel grounded. Wade in water to feel emotionally healed. Fill your lungs with fresh air to feel mentally clear. Raise your face to the heat of the sun and connect with that fire to feel your own immense power.”

 Victoria Erickson

“The greener the setting, the more the relief.”

Richard Louv

“I go to nature to be soothed, healed and have my senses put in order.”

John Burrough

“We depend on nature not only for our physical survival, we also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out, or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.”

Richard Louv

“Nature has the power to heal because it is where we are from, it is where we belong and it belongs to us as an essential part of our health and our survival.”

Nooshin Razani

“Never underestimate the healing power of these three things – music, the ocean and the stars.”

Unknown

“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.”

Rachael Carson

“‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

W. H. Auden

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

John Muir

Do you relate to these quotes? What are your favorite nature therapy quotes?