“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson Related Quotes “The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”— Wendell Berry “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”– Walt Whitman “Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”– Doug Coupland