natural simplicity Quotes

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.