Quotes About Resilience

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

Nature is nobody's ally.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.