Quotes About Balance

The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. He nests in an old woodpecker hole, or other small cavity, in a dead snag overhanging water. The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa. When you doubt the wisdom of this arrangement, take a look at the prothonotary.

Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail for replacement in as many decades

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Love is the law, love under will.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life....

Solamente ya comprendo la verdad estalla en mis deseos y en mis desdichas en mis desencuentros en mis desequilibrios en mis delirios ya comprendo la verdad ahora a buscar la vida

Pero tengo miedo de confundir literatura y vida.

En el verdadero amor no manda nadie; obedecen los dos.

Te noto acobardada delante de él, como si él fuera el que manda. Y en el verdadero amor no manda nadie; obedecen los dos.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

Te vas pero también aquí te quedas. Si las ramas crecen queriendo ocupar el cielo entero, las raíces nunca abandonan la tierra donde nacieron

Si la vida te dio un don, tienes que devolverle a la vida un 10%.

El agua sucia puede apagar un incendio