Quotes About Harmony

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith.

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills.

The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are And it cometh everywhere.

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.