Quotes About Simplicity

Great men have the nature of a child.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.