Quotes About Contemplation

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

Introspection is always retrospection

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude