Quotes About Balance

Deer love mushrooms.

the man who has the soul of the wolf knows the self-restraint of the wolf

The wild-often dismissed as savage and chaotic by civilized thinkers, is actually impartially, relentlessly, and beautifully formal and free. Its expression-the richness of plant and animal life on the globe including us, the rainstorms, windstorms, and calm spring mornings-is the real world, to which we belong.

White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.

If we made such good use of animals, eating them, singing about them, drawing them, riding them, and dreaming about them, what do they get back from us?

Don't imagine that we're doing ecological politics to save the world. We're doing ecological politics to save ourselves, to save our souls. It's a personal exercise in character and in manners. It's a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of living right. It's not that the planet requires us to be good to it. It's that we must do it because it's an aesthetic and ethical choice.

Every boulder on a talus slope is different, no two needles on a fir tree are identical. How could one part be more central, more important, than any other?

We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

Una vita dedita alla semplicità, al giusto coraggio, al buon umore, alla gratitudine, al lavoro, al gioco senza riserve e tanto cammino ci portano vicino al mondo effettivamente esistente e alla sua interezza.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Arbre toujours au milieu De tout ce qui l'entoure Arbre qui savoure La voute des cieux (Tree always in the center Of all that surrounds it Tree feasting upon Heaven's great dome)

Any beings who would destroy another WORLD always destroy themselves first.

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?

Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits; this is life; this is science, or something better than science.

Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.

Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only.

One ought to drink, I think, when one is cheerful already. Otherwise nothing but more sorrow is poured into the cup.

The world is filled half with evil and half with good. We can tilt it forward so that more good runs into our minds, or back, so that more runs into this.

anytime you truly listen to your hunger and fullness, you lose weight.

When faced with too many alternatives and too much information, they satisfice (March and Simon 1958).

Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.