Quotes About Harmony

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn't the same thing as easy.

But my car upholstery was a small price to pay for interplanetary peace.

The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.

I should have known […] I am the rain. […] I am the land […] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

The land is so much more than its analysis.

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope.

For how can one know colour in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

In the deep spring when the grass was green on fields and foothills, when the lupines and poppies made a splendid blue and gold earth, when the great trees awakened in yellow-green young leaves, then there was no more lovely place in the world. It was no beauty you could ignore by being used to it. It caught you in the throat in the morning and made a pain of pleasure in the pit of your stomach when the sun went down over it.

The trees and the muscled mountains are the world – but not the world apart from man – the world and man – the one inseparable unit man and his environment. Why they should ever have been understood as being separate I do not know.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody

The pictures were designed to soothe without arousing interest – engravings of cows in ponds, deer in streams, dogs in lakes. Wet animals seem to serve some human need.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.

But now I been thinkin' what he said, an' I can remember-all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an' he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.

that one thing is all things - plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.

For hours he would lie absorbed in the economy of the ground.

The sea lions felt it and their barking took on a tone and a cadence that would have gladdened the heart of St. Francis. Little girls