Quotes About Nature

I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.

It wasn't only a little she-cat I bought. It was the nobility of all cats, their infinite disinterestedness, their knowledge of how to live, their affinities with the highest type of humans.

Incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.

The fairies have washed their linen in the water of your dress.

A qui vit aux champs et se sert de ses yeux, tout devient miraculeux et simple. To those who dwell in the fields and use their eyes, everything becomes miraculous and simple

But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand, warm to kneel on, or trickling out between fingers that held it in a tight squeeze...

A missional church is one where the whole membership is involved in some aspect of mission, so that mission is not a function of the church but its essential nature.

Brain is a temporary phenomenon in Nature. Performance is eternal.

The flames pitched shadows on their faces. In the forest around them, the coos and shrieks of the lizards and bugs were locked in an ancient groove, a groove so old as to be modern, like Hendrix meeting Fela Kuti.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant—fist, mouse—palm, and ant—little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

Niech na twym niebie nie bÄ™dzie chmur, a jeÅ›li bÄ™dÄ… to niech majÄ… kolor i zapach ró?y.

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

A guerra é mãe e rainha de todas as coisas

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

This world… ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Character is our destiny.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.