Quotes About Harmony

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.