Quotes About Simplicity

Man must go back to nature for information.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.