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Quotes About Balance

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
~ Alvar Aalto
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
~ Paul Cezanne
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
~ Eric Hoffer
Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
~ Stella Gibbons
Nature is cruel but we don't have to be
~ Temple Grandin
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.
~ Grey Owl
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
~ Oscar Wilde
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
~ Aldo Leopold
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
~ Vince Staples
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
~ Henry Adams
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
~ Joni Mitchell
For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.
~ Christmas Humphreys
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
~ William O. Douglas
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
~ Confucius
In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'
~ William McDonough
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
~ Paul Cezanne
Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
~ Maude Barlow
The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
~ Zeno of Citium
The cat is nature's masterpiece.
~ Leonardo da Vinci