Quotes About Nature

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.

The sky was pure opal now.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose", cried the Nightingale, and Life is very dear to all. " It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

A swan can be as fatal to the pilot as a rocket-propelled grenade.

I have come to think of our lives as the colors of that place- hers a piece of bog cotton, mine as black as the water found when men slash too deep in the soil with a shovel.

The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before.

Perhaps she could use the sounds, punctuate them with some of the other birdsong she had taped, but the more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that sound was something to leave alone, that it was not the bulldozers nor the olive trees nor the buzzing strobe lights that needed attention, but the quietness itself.

Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, even acid.

To the seeing eye decay is as fair as growth, and death as life.

Al cielo non chiedo altro che una casa piena di libri e un giardino pieno di fiori

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

Truth does not depart from human nature. If what isregarded as truth departs from human nature, it maynot be regarded as truth.

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.