Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes

Nature moves towards balance.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

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

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Balance is good. You should always have balance... you need it to survive.

In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

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

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

I am two with nature.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.