Quotes About Life

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.