Quotes About Harmony

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. —Colossians 3:14

God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. —Matthew 5:9

The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

They say nature abhors a vacuum, but it doesn't like two take-charge personalities in the same vicinity either.

what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."26

there isn't really any such thing as a subject and an object, there is only oneness.

tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

Deer love mushrooms.

I wanted a good place to settle: Cold Mountain would be safe. Light wind in a hidden pine - Listen close - the sound gets better. Under it a gray haired man Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao. For ten years I havn't gone back home I've even forgotten the way by which I came.

the man who has the soul of the wolf knows the self-restraint of the wolf

The wild-often dismissed as savage and chaotic by civilized thinkers, is actually impartially, relentlessly, and beautifully formal and free. Its expression-the richness of plant and animal life on the globe including us, the rainstorms, windstorms, and calm spring mornings-is the real world, to which we belong.

Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.

White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.

Don't imagine that we're doing ecological politics to save the world. We're doing ecological politics to save ourselves, to save our souls. It's a personal exercise in character and in manners. It's a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of living right. It's not that the planet requires us to be good to it. It's that we must do it because it's an aesthetic and ethical choice.

We all receive, every day, the gifts of the Deep World, from the air we breathe to the food we eat

In the Western Hemisphere we have only the tiniest number of buildings that can be called temples or shrines. The temples of our hemisphere will be some of the planet's remaining wilderness areas.

Every boulder on a talus slope is different, no two needles on a fir tree are identical. How could one part be more central, more important, than any other?

Il galateo del mondo selvatico non richiede solo generosità ma una specie di rude e allegra capacità di tollerare i disagi con buon umore, di comprendere la fragilità di tutti e una certa umiltà.

We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other

Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.

On all levels, from national to local, the need to move toward steady state economy — equilibrium, dynamic balance, inner growth stressed — must be taught.

Arbre toujours au milieu De tout ce qui l'entoure Arbre qui savoure La voute des cieux (Tree always in the center Of all that surrounds it Tree feasting upon Heaven's great dome)

Quand la cloche des fleurs résonne au sommet des ombelles, toute la terre se tait, tout le ciel parle.