Quotes About Harmony

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

El mundo de hoy está exangüe por la falta de cosas elementales, de fuego ante las manos, de agua manando de la tierra, de aire, de tierra amada bajo los pies. Cuanto más tiempo llevaba allí, más ávido estaba de conocer esta costa y compartir su vida misteriosa y elemental.

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

In the eaves a swallow cri'th, And hark, the sound of whetting, Whetting and whetting the scythe On the dewy lawn: O blithe, Blithe sound, there's no forgetting.

It is much more important that we unite, harmonize and improve what we have than attempt to acquire more.

aquel que alcanza la realización, regresa a la belleza del mundo natural»

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

We can never have enough of nature.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.