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Quotes About Balance

Nature hates calculators.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
~ Pliny the Elder
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
~ Laozi
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.
~ Jane Goodall
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
~ William Penn
Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
~ Friedensreich Hundertwasser
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
~ Heraclitus
The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.
~ Paul Stamets
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
~ Margaret Murie
Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
~ Bruce Lee
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
~ George Perkins Marsh
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
~ Benton MacKaye
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
~ Terence McKenna
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
~ Louis Pasteur
Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.
~ Emmanuel Lubezki
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
~ Thor Heyerdahl