Quotes About Harmony

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.

Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children's future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.

There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the dialect of moss on stone - an interface of immensity and minute ness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yan.

Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.

poetry cannot speak without remembering the turns of the sun and moon, and the rhythm of the ocean, and the recurrence of human generations, the returning waves of life and death.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

There is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange, towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

The soft negotiating game emphasizes the importance of building and maintaining a relationship.

Even apart from a shared interest in averting joint loss, there almost always exists the possibility of joint gain. This may take the form of developing a mutually advantageous relationship, or of satisfying the interests of each side with a creative solution.

Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in a condition of mutual toleration.

Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.

Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.

Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that

Wheels turning, the motorcycle's roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

Really. It can't be as bad as all that," she said. "Bad? Good and evil are always mixed up. It provides order.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn't much seem to matter.

We were more alike than we were different, he and I.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.

He wanted his noises to touch the others; friendly noises could melt hostility.