Quotes about Balance
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
— Thomas Merton
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
— Robert Frost
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.
— Pope Francis
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
— James Allen
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
— Wendell Berry
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
— Timothy Keller
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
— Robert Frost
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield