Quotes About Dance And Nature

#1. Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies ... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

William Cowper

#2. Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. ( ... ) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

Rudolf Von Laban

#3. It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

#4. I want to turn the whole thing upside down
I'll find the things they say just can't be found
I'll share the love I find with everyone
We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song
I don't want this feeling to go away.

Jack Johnson

#5. Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

Colin Firth

#6. The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Plato

#7. Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Wayne McGregor

#9. And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.

Kathleen Raine

#10. Death. Life. They are in the air, the water, the earth, and the fire that surround us. They co-mingle like a dance of weeping and rejoicing. The joy and pain become one. We are of a dualistic nature." ---Jennifer Mills

Dianne Bright

#11. Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

#12. In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step - usually the pogo - and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

Brendan Sexton III

#15. I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Robert Fulghum

#16. I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And you your life will be grand.

Kamal Ravikant

#17. I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.

Anzia Yezierska

#18. I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Ira Glass

#19. Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

Eric Chaisson

#21. Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

#22. Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

#23. Nature is always inviting you to see her beauty and power. She is attracting you with her dance, song, and love.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Isadora Duncan

#25. Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ...

Annie Dillard

#26. Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.
'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,
covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,
and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,
and prayed like an orphan.

Wendell Berry

#27. The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

Michael Dolan

#28. Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Anna Halprin

#29. One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You'll see. One day, this will be a magical place again. With music and dance and good times and people celebrating.

Nadia Aguiar

#30. Since the beginning of time mankind has used music and dance to commune with the spirit of nature and the spirit of the universe.

Goa Gil

#31. If I can't sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Lynn C. Tolson

#33. If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same ... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

Isadora Duncan

#34. Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

Frederick Lenz

#35. Let us dance in the rain to enjoy the rainbows and to get lost in the beauty of nature.

Debasish Mridha

#36. No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

Sri Chinmoy

#37. Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#38. Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress

Gunter Pauli