Quotes About Harmony

How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?

The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.

Lao Tse told them to relax and learn from the life of a plant. It doesn't have to be told how to do its thing. It follows its nature.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

The mind which has attained wisdom and peace becomes a mirror of all creation.

Seeing himself in others, one who is in a state of higher consciousness feels compassion for all beings, and holds only positive thoughts about them.

Happiness in life is the result of accepting everything just the way it is. Serenity is achieved when one no longer wishes for "something else.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

In dignity and harmony, in rich beauty rose their voices now employed in noble purpose. Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and alto and mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

Man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR (C. 1868–1939)

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)

Even though they fought, their fighting never turned them against each other. It always ended with them embracing and kissing, smiling, laughing.

Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Anyone who couldn't understand that what's important is a man's soul, not the color of his skin, would never be content here.

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer

There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

Trees know when we are close by. The chemistry of their roots and the perfumes of their leaves pump out change when we're near...when you feel good after a walk in the woods, it may be that certain species are bribing you

Life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.

A woman sits on the ground, leaning against a pine. Its bark presses hard against her back, as hard as life. Its needles scent the air and a force hums in the heart of the wood. Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies. The tree is saying things, in words before words.

A tree is a passage between earth and sky.

She could tell them about a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it's the stuff of poems. If forests were patentable, she'd get an ovation.