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Quotes About Balance

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!
~ Amory Lovins
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
~ Johannes Kepler
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
~ Bruce Lee
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
~ E. F. Schumacher
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
~ Francis Bacon
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.
~ Bill Mollison
By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
~ Richard Louv
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
~ Maurice Strong
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.
~ Dean Potter
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
~ Chrysippus
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
~ Arthur Erickson
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
~ Herman Melville
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
~ Luther Standing Bear
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
~ Barry Commoner
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
~ Jonathan Swift
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
~ Socrates
One thing you cannot control is nature.
~ Diana Ross
To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
~ Zhuangzi
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
~ Anatole France
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
~ Murray Gell-Mann
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
~ Walter Russell