Quotes About Simplicity

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.

Learn from the purity of nature.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.