Quotes About Balance

I need more balance, a more distanced perspective. I should accept what is. nightmares are a part of existence.

play the piano she says it's not good for you not to write.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Saber mantener el equilibrio justo entre soledad y gente, ésa es la clave, ésa es la táctica, para no acabar en el manicomio.

Sometimes we can become too holy and therefore, caged.

justice is everywhere and it's working

But you must have imperfect hours to get perfect hours. You must kill ten hours to make two hours live. What you must be careful of is not to kill ALL the hours, ALL the years.

No estoy loco, pero tampoco estoy cuerdo.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit.

Poetry says too much in too short a time; prose says too little and takes too long.

If we can laugh, fine. And if we've got to cry, we've got to cry.

You couldn't underestimate them and you couldn't kiss their ass. There was a certain middle ground to be achieved.

a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

remembered how my father used to come home each night and talk about his job to my mother. The job talk began when he entered the door, continued over the dinner table, and ended in the bedroom where my father would scream "Lights Out!" at 8 p.m., so he could get his rest and his full strength for the job the next day. There was no other subject except the job.

Nature's success stories, they are like Gause's protozoans; the world is their petri dish. Their populations grow at a terrific rate; they take over large areas, engulfing their environment as if no force opposed them. Then they hit a barrier. They drown in their own wastes. They starve from lack of food. Something figures out how to eat them.

Far too often, we have been told that the future will be wracked by crises of energy scarcity, when the problems our children will face will be due to its abundance.

Farmers grab a few harvests, but the soil is not bared to rain and sun long enough to incur permanent damage. Switching from field to field to field, swidden farmers live in the forest without destroying the ecosystems they depend on: a supple, balanced harmony.

Within a few centuries, the Indians of the eastern forest reconfigured much of their landscape from a patchwork game park to a mix of farmland and orchards. Enough forest was left to allow for hunting, but agriculture was an increasing presence. The result was a new "balance of nature.

More important, the very existence of so much healthy forest after twelve thousand years of use by large populations suggests that whatever Indians did before swidden must have been ecologically more sustainable.

Rocketing up the growth curve, humankind every year takes ever more of the earth's richness. An often quoted estimate by a team of Stanford biologists is that humans grab "about 40% of the present net primary production in terrestrial ecosystems"—40 percent of the entire world's output of land plants and animals.

The natural world is incomplete without the human touch.

becomes as hot as the sun? Earth, he knew, reflects some heat back into space. But why isn't all of it reflected? What keeps our planet cozily warm, Goldilocks-style, and not too hot or too cold?

Road to Survival, "environment" meant not the external natural factors that affected humans but the external natural factors that were affected by humans. Instead of Nature molding people, Vogt envisioned people molding Nature, usually negatively. And by "environment" he meant not a particular place, but a global totality.