Quotes About Growth

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.