Quotes About Nature

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.

Laisse le grand monde aller son train sonore, nous autres nicherons ici en silence.

What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words. To-day I have had a scene, which, if literally related, would, make the most beautiful idyl in the world. But why should I talk of poetry and scenes and idyls? Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum

To me the mountain mass lies nobly mute, The whences and the whys I don't dispute. When Nature by and in herself was founded, In purity the earthen sphere she rounded. In summit and in gorge did pleasure seek, And threaded cliff to cliff and peak to peak; Then did she fashion sloping hills at peace And gently down into the vale release. All greens and grows, and to her gay abundance Your swirling lunacies are sheer redundance.

We may get to know the world however we choose, it will always keep a day and night aspect.

Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen in Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch.

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.

MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.

Life is not light, but refracted colour.

Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?

I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams. I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams. I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes; At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes. I hear you when the billows rise on high, With murmur deep. To tread the silent grove where wander I, When all's asleep.

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.