Natural Harmony Quotes

The world will be saved by beauty.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

A very goodly Bay … that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa or America for large and pleasant navigable rivers. Heaven and Earth have never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

Gardening is the instrument of grace.