Quotes About Nature

ANIMA Ma dimmi, eccellenza e infelicità straordinaria sono sostanzialmente una cosa stessa? […] NATURA Nelle anime degli uomini […] si può dire che l'una e l'altra cosa sieno quasi il medesimo: perché l'eccellenza delle anime importa maggiore intensione della loro vita; la qual cosa importa maggior sentimento dell'infelicità propria; che è come se io dicessi maggiore infelicità. ( Dialogo della Natura e di un'Anima )

from the idea of nature as a "fixed" and harmonious order that can be subjected to classification and mathematical description to an idea of nature that is run through with continual transformations, something that is living and historicized even while it works according to recognizable laws and is animated by recognizable forces.

E tu pur volgi Dai miseri lo sguardo ; e tu, sdegnando Le sciagure e gli affani, alla reina Felicita servi, o natura. In cielo, In terra amico agl'infelici alcuno E rifugio non resta altro che il ferro. Mais toi aussi tu détournes Tes yeux des malheureux, ô nature, Méprisant les disgrâces, les peines, Tu ne sers que le bonheur, ce souverain. Dans le ciel, sur la terre, il n'est au malheureux D'autre ami, d'autre refuge, que le fer. (La vita solitaria, la vie solitaire)

Cuando ni siquiera me era grata, huyendo del placer, la sonrisa de los astros, el silencio de la aurora o el verdear del prado. Hasta de la gloria callaba amor ahora, y si en otro tiempo me inflamaba tanto, hoy sólo de la belleza era morada.

The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

The giants were by nature of enormous build, like those gross wild creatures which travelers report finding at the foot of America, in the country of the so-called Patagones [Big Feet].

C6 Now Vico here agrees with Aristotle. When he calls the world of nations the world of men, he means that what were beasts in the world of nature become men in the world of nations, and it is by the becoming of the world of nations that they become men. Or, as he puts it otherwise, in a sense they make the world of nations, and in the same sense they make themselves by making it [367, 520, 692].

Jamás existió en el mundo nación de ateos, pues empezaron todas con alguna religión, y las religiones, sin salvedad, echaron su raigambre en aquel deseo, naturalmente común a los hombres, de vivir eternamente: y este universal deseo de la naturaleza humana nace de un común sentido, celado en la hondura de la mente humana, según el cual los ánimos de los hombres son inmortales.

This is the Hermes who, on the authority of Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods [3.22.56], was called by the Egyptians [Thoth or] Theuth (from which the Greeks are said to have derived theos),

Monarchies conform best to human nature and therefore constitute the most durable form of state.

La natura è sleale, nella sua innocenza.

the worrying gap that seems to persist between the spontaneity of reason and the passivity of sensibility can be overcome if one no longer thinks of nature exclusively in the deterministic terms of modern scientism;

The sea was calm, with very slight ripples on which the sunlight produced a constantly changing glitter that, for some inexplicable reason, made me think of eternity.

God is great because no one else could create the planet we live in. All living beings dwell in the same Earth which God created. Whether they believe in Him or not.

Look at the mountains. Look and the oceans! No one else can change the oceans into mountains or mountains into oceans, because the work of God's hands is the greatest.

But like all wonders, natural or otherwise, it made your own life seem temporary, and it told you things about the passage of time you didn't want to know.

It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Jesse Livermore, who declared in How to Trade in Stocks, "I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations. This is because markets are driven by humans—and human nature never changes" (Greenville: Traders Press, 1991, 96).

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

like a swan and its reflection on the surface of a lake.

the English garden presented the reverse side of the tapestry, with rough, clotted textures, knots like fists and colours all running together.

Femininity unfolds naturally, whereas masculinity must be achieved; and here is where the male ritual cult steps in.