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Quotes About Harmony

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.
~ Jan Smuts
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
~ Walter Russell
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
~ Mark Twain
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
~ Henry David Thoreau
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
~ Sri Aurobindo
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
~ Barry Lopez
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
~ Paul Gauguin
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
~ Niels Bohr
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
~ Fran Lebowitz
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
~ Hippocrates
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
~ Janet Morris
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
~ Immanuel Kant
When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.
~ David Holmgren
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The voice of nature is always encouraging.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He who understands nature walks close with God.
~ Edgar Cayce
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.
~ Gregory Colbert
Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.
~ Danielle LaPorte
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
~ Auguste Rodin
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
~ Stephen Crane
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
~ Ian McHarg
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
~ Rachel Carson