Quotes About Nature

Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but that the learned must decide when and how.

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and altars like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn

So you truly do not believe in God? I find no reason to, in nature... If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must then be a human invention.

omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum (all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)

I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.

Jedes Geschöpf der Welt ist uns gleichsam ein Buch und Gemälde und Spiegel. (Every creature of the world is to us at once a book and painting and mirror.)

Cuando la naturaleza femenina, naturalmente tan perversa, se sublima en la santidad, entonces acierta a convertirse en el más elevado vehículo de la gracia.

there are two forms of magic. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man's downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine, where God's knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man, and it serves to transform nature, and one of its ends is to prolong man's very life.

omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum

Omnia mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum.

Monkeys do not laugh. Laughter is particular to men.

Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn;

This was my master's way. He not only knew how to read the great book of nature, but also knew the way monks read the books of Scripture, and how they thought through them. A gift that, as we shall see, was to prove useful to him in the days to follow.

Facta est grando et ignis

Le guerre sono lo sfogo più efficace e naturale che si possa desiderare per tenere a freno la crescita degli esseri umani. Non si diceva infatti un tempo, partendo per la guerra, Dio lo vuole? Ma bisogna trovare gente che la guerra abbia voglia di farla. Se tutti si imboscassero, in guerra non morirebbe nessuno. E allora perché farle?

Sì, signore, io discendo dalla scimmia. Ma voi, signore, voi vi risalite!

C'è stato un tempo in cui ero tutto ambizione e smania di imparare, e giorno dopo giorno mi sentivo sconfortato per il fatto che madre natura in uno dei suoi momenti di clemenza non mi avesse stampato il marchio di quel genio che ogni tanto concede a qualcuno.

Haven't you grasped the significance of this discovery? In the Telluric Navel you place the most powerful valve, which enables you to foresee rain and drought, to release hurricanes, tidal waves, earthquakes, to split continents, sink islands (no doubt Atlantis disappeared in some such reckless experiment), raise mountain chains …You realize the atomic bomb is nothing in comparison? Besides

Después de pasarme dos años entre humanistas que recitaban fórmulas para convencer a la naturaleza de hacer cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer, recibí noticas de Italia: mis antiguos compañeros, o al menos algunos de ellos, se dedicaban a dispararle a la nuca a los que no estuviesen de acuerdo con ellos, para convencer a la gente de que hiciese cosas que no tenía la menor intención de hacer.

Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn't destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.

So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

Disneyland tells us that technology can give us more reality than nature can.

Qué hermoso era el espectáculo de la naturaleza aún no tocada por el saber, a menudo perverso, del hombre! Vi

Lanny enjoyed this season of mist and mellow fruitfulness, and observed with the eyes of an art connoisseur the thatched cottages and moldy-looking roofs, the hedges, the winding roads