Quotes About Reflection

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

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

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.