Quotes About Nature

Each little princess had her own little plot of garden where she could dig and plant just as she liked. One made her flower-bed in the shape of a whale, another thought it nice to have hers like a little mermaid; but the youngest made hers quite round like the sun, and she would only have flowers of a rosy hue like its beams.

In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.

"One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men."

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

les fins de l'homme sont domiciliées dans la nature.

i speak for none of you now,all you plotters of perfect crimes,nor for me, nor for anyone.i speak for those who can't speak,for the deaf and dumb witnesses,for otters and seals,for the ancient owls of the earth.

La vieja conocía el futuro porque conocía el pasado, y su familiaridad con las cosas de la vida le permitían comprender y, por lo tanto, aceptar sin rencor, la eterna tragedia de la naturaleza: es menester que la carne perezca para que la carne pueda vivir.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Nature, then, is incapable of conceiving what lies above nature. As a consequence, no creature can achieve divinization for itself naturally, simply because it cannot grasp God. It belongs wholly to God's grace to distribute divinization by grace, according to the measure of each being, to enlighten nature with supernatural light and to lift it above its own limitations by the superabundance of glory.45

His being is "absolutely inaccessible, equally so (???? ?? ????) to visible and to invisible creation".10 The "difference between uncreated and created nature is infinite (???????)"11 and grows ever greater and less controllable

is gleaned from both "books" together. The "contemplation of nature" (?????? ??????) and of the structures of meaning (?????) hidden within it, structures that are part of every single being, becomes for Maximus a necessary step, a kind of initiation, into the knowledge of God.

the connection between being and person that is expressed in the word hypostasis.

Aristotelianism and the theology of Chalcedon enter here into an unbreakable alliance: they preserve the rights of nature against the rampages of an unchecked supernaturalism.

They try to reveal revelation to themselves. For the grace of the Holy Spirit never destroys the capabilities of nature. Just the opposite: it makes nature, which has been weakened by unnatural habit, mature and strong enough once again to function in a natural way and leads it upward toward insight into the divine.

Man and rats are merely, so far, the most successful animals of prey. They are utterly destructive of other forms of life. Neither of them is of the slightest use to any other species of living things.

Roma ?mparatoru Elagabalus'un, 10.000 fare, 1000 k?r faresi ve 1000 gelincik aras?nda bir dövü? düzenledi?i söylenir. Söylemeye gerek yok, k?r faresi fareyi 'k?r'?p geçirdi, gelincik ikisinin de hakk?ndan geldi.

Con seguridad, la esencia de una gran obra de arte no ha consistido nunca en procurarle a la «naturaleza» una reproducción plena y fiel, un retrato.

Slowly consumed, like fire down a candle;Forever flowing, like a passing river.Now, morning, I face my lone shadow:Suddenly my eyes are bleared with tears.