Quotes About Reflection

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

What a piece of work is man!

. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.