Quotes About Harmony

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.

He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The

The lion does not constantly war with the leopard; the horse does not war with the cow; even among themselves they rarely kill each other, no matter how important the issue to them." "But they would," said Count Roldero, undaunted. "They would if they could anticipate events. They would if they could work out the rate at which the rival animal is consuming food, breeding, expanding its territory.

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea.

our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world

She loved singing—and soccer

Working for world betterment would eventually do away with intolerance against those who are different from us. The need for personal status and elitism is the conflict because it is equated with happiness.

For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it has, and the excellence of it, to its neighbours.

in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

Just as no score relies on only one pitch or level of effort from musicians in the orchestra. Sometimes it relies on silence.

If anything she seems calm in this universe of hers.

Dinlenmek,dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmektir.

Succinct histories tell us something—that anything peaceful has a troubled past.

Dinlenmek, dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmekti.

At every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside of nature—but that we, with flesh, blood, and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst. . . .

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Improving the soil improved the man.

we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal," wrote Humboldt, and that felt very much the case, and so, for the first time I can remember, did this: "I myself am identical with nature.