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Quotes About Nature

Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt?
~ Pablo Neruda
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
~ Pablo Neruda
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation and the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.
~ Pablo Neruda
Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.
~ Pablo Neruda
Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
~ Pablo Neruda
I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.
~ Pablo Neruda
Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender.
~ Pablo Neruda
my beauty, flower by flower, star by star, wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.
~ Pablo Neruda
ay,amar es un viaje con agua y con estrellas,con aire ahogado y bruscas tempestades de harina: amar es un combate de relámpagos y dos cuerpos por una sola miel derrotados -pablo neruda
~ Pablo Neruda
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Que sigue pagando el otono con tanto dinero amarillo? What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?
~ Pablo Neruda
from all the graces of my homeland I chose only your savage heart.
~ Pablo Neruda
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight
~ Pablo Neruda
Sometimes a piece of the sun burned like a coin between my hands.
~ Pablo Neruda
Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .
~ Pablo Neruda
When I see the sea again has the sea seen me or hasn't it seen me? Why the waves ask me The same that I ask them? And why do they hit the rock With such a futile enthusiasm? Don't they get tired of repeating their declaration to the sand?
~ Pablo Neruda
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.
~ Pablo Neruda
I am not me but the living matter fermenting and forming it's own shape in the fruitfulness of everyday
~ Pablo Neruda
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel. You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves. Behind the nocturnal mountains, white lily of conflagration, ah, I can say nothing!  You were made of everything.
~ Pablo Neruda
Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes
~ Pablo Neruda
How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
~ Pablo Neruda
Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy?
~ Pablo Neruda
Que aprendeu a árvore da terra para conversar com o céu? What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
~ Pablo Neruda