Quotes About Harmony

The morning win forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.

mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.

This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth every where.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. I

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.

What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?

Any deep harmony that might eventually govern them would not be the result of their having much in common - having anything, in fact, but their affection; and would really find its explanation in some sense, on the part of each, of being poor where the other was rich.

Her life should always be in harmony with the most pleasing impression she should produce; she would be what she appeared, and she would appear what she was.

There were complications, there were questions; but they were so much more together than they were anything else.

The day lingered and the last calls of the last birds sounded, in a flushed sky, from the old trees.

E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! [...] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.

Strether wondered, desiring justice. "They seem—all the women—very harmonious." "Oh in closer quarters they come out!" And then, while Strether was aware of fearing closer quarters, though giving himself again to the harmonies

But will they make themselves agreeable to me? That's what I like people to do. I don't hesitate to say so, because I always appreciate it.

Order is the dream of man, but chaos is the law of nature.

She has such variety and yet such harmony.