Quotes About Reflection

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

The sound of water says what I think.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

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

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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 book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature