Quotes About Harmony

Our common future will be determined by the struggle between the killers and the peacemakers.

life consists of an effort to get the maps in our heads to conform to the ground on which we walk.

The order we seek begins with a thorough scouring of the inside of life.

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

'Tis easy to make friends among angels when you dwell high.

If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Angels have no philosophy but love.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

I see life as a great banquet at which I'm the honored guest, along with my brothers the deer and the bear and the raccoon and the salamander and the eagle and the fly.

Author unknown, c.1980s

An artist makes visual the rhythms and arrhythmias of the universe.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Good architecture lets nature in.

Wag more. Bark less.

Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

[T]here is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky...

Birdies of a feather play badminton together.

Make beard, not war.

Beauty is visible music....

Beauty is the spirit of Nature peering through the gloom of sin.... Beauty is Nature's memory of Eden.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.