Surroundings Quotes

328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors

Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us?Â It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness. — Joel S. Goldsmith
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience… — Richard Louv
The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible.… — Mary Caroline Richards
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. — David Abram
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.… — Ajahn Chah
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There… — Jeffrey Hunter
It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings. — Stephen Gardiner
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally. — Robert M. Pirsig
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful… — Carl Sagan
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing… — Zhuangzi
One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there,… — Constance Spry
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Art should become as one with its surroundings. — Isamu Noguchi
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art… — Jens Jensen
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. — Ed McMahon
The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic… — John Maynard Keynes
Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health. — Ellen G. White
Curiosityâ€™s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding… — Julie Czerneda

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