Quotes About Harmony

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.

country without wolves isn't really good country. It's incomplete. It doesn't have its full spirit.

It's easy to cry "bug" when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Make coffee, not war,

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should be so. " Carr

Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.

Cultures and national belief systems that maintain their integrity can add to diversity. I'm a strong believer in melting pot societies, but enclaves of distinctiveness are important too. As long as every nation, and every diverse group within every nation, is accepting of others.

The Chinese people were, by all accounts, a wonderful group—generous and peace-loving

I hate to keep treating the universe like it is a living being, but the way I think of it is that the universe wants to deal with changes in time in the most efficient way possible. And it wants to maintain a single timeline, as infinite timelines aren't very efficient.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

And when we allow freedom to ring . . . we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!

Liberating Water Directive is all about water. More succinctly put, the ways of water.

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.

The most successful of biology's creatures coexist in mutually beneficial ecosystems.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

But do you want to be efficient like a machine, or fruitful like a tree?

May it not be said of us that the millennium is a thousand years of peace that Christians love to fight about.