Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

Everything is falling into place.

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

Take advantage of the resources around you and the relationships you build!

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

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.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

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.