Quotes About Connection

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Nature and books belong to all who see them.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

Our best thoughts come from others.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.