Quotes About Simplicity

Give me again my hollow tree,A crust of bread, and liberty.

I've often wish'd that I had clear,For life, six hundred pounds a year;A handsome house to lodge a friend,A river at my garden's end,A terrace walk, and half a roodOf land set out to plant a wood.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mindSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;His soul proud Science never taught to strayFar as the solar walk or milky way;Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n,Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n.

Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,No language, but the language of the heart.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

It is always the silly things that remind me

If I can give you one bit of advice, it's never to make your own fries. Buy frozen. Life is too short to be peeling potatoes.

You know, it never looks like you want it to, your hair's never perfect and it'll probably rain, but it doesn't matter. Those are your good old days. It's those times you always remember

The rest of our weekend sleeping arrangements, hand-done work, hand-prepared food was simple enough to please Thoreau, who I am convinced was a nice fellow who confused rustic vacations with life.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

If we speak plainly, without metaphors or symbols, we cannot escape common sense. Metaphors and symbols can be abused.

'Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.