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Quotes About Balance

Allow not nature more than nature needs.
~ William Shakespeare
Nature knows best how to organise.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
~ Seneca the Younger
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
~ Nan Fairbrother
The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
~ Richard Louv
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
~ Marianne Moore
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
~ Robert Frost
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
~ Laozi
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
~ Alan Chadwick
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
~ Edward Abbey
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
~ John Ralston Saul
I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
~ Douglas Coupland
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
~ Livy
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
~ Lucan
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
~ Philip Pullman
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
~ Rene Dubos
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson