Quotes about Harmony

With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.

Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down...

Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.