Louis Agassiz Quotes

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is getting something. The truth is doing us good. The truth of the sunshine, the truth of the rain, the truth of the fresh air, the truth of the wind in the trees, these are truths. And they are always accessible!

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

Nature admits no lie.

The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.

For nature then to me was all in all.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.