Quotes About Growth

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Earth laughs in flowers.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

To be modern is to destroy nature.