Thomas Starr King Quotes

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

I think the universe works perfectly.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

Order and creativity are complementary.

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

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

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.

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

It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

Nature has made nothing in vain.