Quotes About Reflection

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

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

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside