Quotes about Connection

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies, -neighbors are kind enough for that, -but to do the like office to our spirits. For this few are rich enough, however well disposed they may be.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself. I once more feel myself grandly related. This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

Man needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized.

We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.

It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.