Euripides Quotes

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?