Quotes About Connection

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Standing on the bare ground… 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 particle of God.

In good writing, words become one with things.

They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Almost all people descend to meet.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Do your thing & I shall know you.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.