Quotes About Nature

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

So far as the majority of their acts are considered, crowds display a singularly inferior mentality; yet there are other acts in which they appear to be guided by those mysterious forces which the ancients denominated destiny, nature, or providence, which we call the voices of the dead, and whose power it is impossible to overlook, although we ignore their essence. It would seem, at times, as if there were latent forces in the inner being of nations which serve to guide them.

In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall.

It is as interesting to decipher the motives of the actions of men as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant.

?çgüdüleri taraf?ndan yönetilen varl?klara ait eylemlerin karma??kl??? bizi hayrete dü?ürür.

Hay deseos que se ahogan en nuestra alma de mujer, sin que los revele más que un suspiro; ideas locas que cruzan por nuestra imaginación, sin que ose formularlas el labio, fenómenos incomprensibles de nuestra naturaleza misteriosa, que el hombre no puede ni aun concebir.

Se a cullare le azzurre campanule del tuo balcone credi che sospirando passi il vento mormoratore sappi che, occulto fra le verdi foglie, sono io respirare. Se mentre risuona confuso alle tue spalle vago rumore, credi che per nome ti abbia chiamato lontana voce, sappi che, fra le ombre che ti cercano, sono io a chiamare. Se a notte fonda si turba timoroso il tuo cuore mentre senti sulle labbra un alito ardente, sappi che, sebbene invisibile, accanto a te sono io a respirare.

Mientras haya en el mundo primavera

Los invisibles átomos del aire en derredor palpitan y se inflaman, el cielo se deshace en rayos de oro, la tierra se estremece alborozada. Oigo flotando en olas de armonías, rumor de besos y batir de alas; mis párpados se cierran... ¿Qué sucede? ¿Dime? ¡Silencio! ¡Es el amor que pasa!

Necesario es abrir paso a las aguas profundas, que acabarán por romper el dique, diariamente aumentadas por un manantial vivo.

Los suspiros son aire y van al aire! ¡Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar! Dime, mujer, cuando el amor se olvida ¿sabes tú adónde va?

The wide and strange land shaped and reshaped human institutions to its own purposes, and one either learned to live with the blazing sun, the scarcity of water, the dust and interminable distances, and the whispering quiet of empty canyons and mesas, or he admitted failure and moved elsewhere.

In On the Incarnation Athanaseus explicitly states that creation is good, and that it is a path to lead us to God. He argues against those who assume creation is evil. And he brings forth the insight that by participating personally in His creation, God has elevated the status of nature. By implication, he maintains that the honor and duty of one who knows and loves God is to know and love His creation.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

A pettos speckled with gold ajiggle with a fremitus from the heart touches me like Athena's hoolet mewing in uncertain dark. So much is nature, whereon we build our particulars fastidious and critical. Your every arrow O Eros has hit me , as the song goes. O girls, girls. This arrow is Timo's curls, this is Heliodora's shoes, this the smell of quinces that blows from Demo's door, flowers plaited into Dorothea's hair and ox-eyed Antikleia's smile that is music from the islands, summer's stars.

a boar is a very special kind of animal whose bristling is a thing unto itself, and his nape, like a snake's neck, is more a word than a reality.

Exploring the dynamic between tradition and change when it came to the role of women as powerful and influential figures is an essential part of understanding the evolving nature of the Roman world. This is complicated by the fact that the Romans to a large extent did not themselves necessarily recognize how the political and social role of women was changing.

Why should color, of all things, be at the center of so much crossfire? Perhaps because in meddling with such a deep and seemingly instinctive area of perception, culture camouflages itself as nature more successfully there than in any other area of language. There is nothing remotely abstract, theoretical, philosophical, hypothetical, or any other -cal, so it seems, about the difference between yellow and red or between green and blue.

Quiconque est authentiquement heureux ou sage le demeure dans chaque situation. Il apporte cette qualité avec lui partout où il va. La sagesse et le contentement font partie de sa nature.

Mutluluk, karabulutlar kaybolduÄŸunda, gün ?????n?n doÄŸal olarak dünyay? ?s?tmas? gibi, stressiz bir yaÅŸam?n doÄŸal ifadesidir.

Secret Self is your royal nature. Like the kingly condition that it is, it knows about you what you have yet to learn about yourself. Let it reveal to you its secret kingdom. It belongs to you. You receive a portion of this kingdom each time you refuse to be captured by the common and choose instead in favor of the celestial. The stars are your birthright. We must look beyond the sparrow to the skies through which it wings.