Quotes About Nature

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;

Her hair clustered around her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.

Comprendí que estaba ante alguien cuya simple personalidad era tan fascinante que, si me abandonaba a ella, absorbería mi naturaleza entera, mi alma y hasta mi propio arte.

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy

There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.

W duszy jest zwierzÄ™co??, a ciaÅ'o miewa chwile uduchowienia. ZmysÅ'y mogÄ… uszlachetni?,a intelekt sta? siÄ™ ?ródÅ'em zepsucia. Któ? mo?e stwierdzi?, gdzie siÄ™ koÅ"czy bodziec fizyczny, a zaczyna psychiczny impuls.

I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.

In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Soul and body, body and soul--how mysterious they were! There was animalism in the soul, and the body had its moments of spirituality.

the poet must sing, and the sculptor think in bronze, and the painter make the world a mirror for his moods, as surely and as certainly as the hawthorn must blossom in spring, and the corn turn to gold at the harvest-time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to sickle, and from sickle to shield.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive.

addition to the landscape. No other shrub can bloom almost continuously from early summer until frost. And no

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Nebylo tu nic poÃ…â"¢ádného k snÄ›dku, bylo to jenom velké akvárium, jehož stÄ›ny tvoÃ…â"¢ily místo sklenÄ›ných tabulí ze dvou stran bÃ…â"¢ehy, dole písek, a nahoÃ…â"¢e nebe. A kolem dokola kvetly pomnÄ›nky a Ã…â"¢íkali vzpomínej.

Tatínek byl už tehdy rybáÃ…â"¢ským funkcionáÃ…â"¢em jako vÄ›tÅ¡ina bývalých pytlák?.

Jdu proti Ã…â"¢ece, v Ã…â"¢ece je stÃ…â"¢íbro a zlaté listí. Jdu sám a najednou si uvÄ›domuji, že tu nehoukají auta, abych uhnul, a nedrn?í tramvaje, abych couvnul. A to je vlastnÄ› ten hlavní d?vod, pro? jdu na Å¡tiky.

When I felt better, I tried to remember what had been beautiful in my life. I did not think about love or how I had wandered all over the world. I did not think about night flights across the ocean or how I played Canadian hockey in Prague. I remembered walking along the brooks, rivers, ponds, and dams to fish. I realized that these were the most beautiful experiences in my life.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

A cool breeze laden with iodine blew in from the sea.

Grandfather, I know now what it is that washes the water. It is the spirit. The water is clear and pure, but the spirit is purer still.