Robert Herrick Quotes

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Today the world is a big jungle.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

Only entropy comes easy.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

The best plan is to have no plan.

There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Nature hates calculators.

But I like the chaos. As long as it's happy chaos.

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.