Category: philosopher
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
John Muir
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.
Rumi
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There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.
Noam Chomsky