Quotes About Nature

Me levanté, salí. Al llegar a la verja, me volví. Entonces el jardín me sonrió. Me apoyé en la verja y miré largo rato. La sonrisa de los árboles, de macizo de laurel quería decir algo; aquél era el verdadero secreto de la existencia.

Ä°nsan?n kendi yüzünü anlayabilmesi belki de elinde deÄŸil. Belki de tek ba??ma yaÅŸad???m için böyle oluyor. Topluluk içinde yaÅŸayanlar, kendilerini, arkadaÅŸlar?na nas?l görünüyorlarsa aynalarda t?pk? öyle görmeyi öÄŸrenmiÅŸlerdir. Benim arkada??m yok. Tenimin bunca ç?plak olmas? acaba bu yüzden mi? Buna insans?z... evet insans?z doÄŸa denilebilir.

The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say--yes, you might say, nature without humanity.

Nu-mi simt trupul, m-a cucerit puritatea lucrurilor care m? înconjoar?; nimic nu e viu; vântul sufl?, linii drepte alearg? în noapte.

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature. In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuse behind us, nor justification before us. We are alone, with no excuses.

Aujourd'hui encore, je ne puis voir sans plaisir un enfant trop sérieux parler gravement, tendrement à sa mère enfant; j'aime ces douces amitiés sauvages qui naissent loin des hommes et contre eux. Je regarde longuement ces couples puérils et puis je me rappelle que je suis un homme et je détourne la tête.

Tout homme a son lieu naturel; ni l'orgueil ni la valeur n'en fixent l'altitude: l'enfance décide.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

When I'm in L.A., I try to run the canyons or play tennis with friends a few times a week. I've tried working out with a trainer and going to the gym, but I'd just much rather be outside.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

My work is loving the world.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.