Quotes About Reflection

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

Nature constantly imitates art.

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.