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Quotes About Nature

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Even when natural weather is good, human weather is bad.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I like the idea of saying thank you on behalf of the weather.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Haiku are tiny seventeen-syllable poems that seek to convey a sudden awareness of beauty by a mating of opposite or incongruous terms.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it. The
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Cum o fi oare sentimentul de singur?tate la animale?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
?i sfinÈ›ii sau înÈ›elepÈ›ii de odinioar?, È™i cercet?torii de azi ai fenomenelor metapsihice, toÈ›i cei care au meditat asupra sufletului È™i-au manifestat în general respectul pentru cel al fiinÈ›ei umane È™i au desconsiderat celelalte animale È™i plantele. De mii de ani înaint?m orbeÈ™te doar în direcÈ›ia c?ut?rii diferenÈ›elor de tot felul dintre om È™i lumea natural?.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Animalele nu sunt lipsite de sentimente… Dac? n-aÈ™ avea lâng? mine ceva viu, care s? se miÈ™te, n-aÈ™ putea suporta singur?tatea.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Por qué florecía aquel loto en medio de una hoguera? ¿Por qué no se marchitaba?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
If man had a tough,hairy hide like a bear,his world would be different indeed- It was through a thin , smooth skin that man loved.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Now that he was near her, this sighing of the human skin took on a dreamlike quality like the spell of the mountains.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
radiate up from the earth. But as the train went on, the
~ Yasunari Kawabata
In the spray the girl stood naked. The facts were different, but in the course of time Eguchi's mind had made them so. As he grew old, the hills of Kyoto and the trunks of the red pines in gentle clusters could sometimes bring the girl back to Eguchi; but memories as vivid as tonight's were rare. Was it the youth of the sleeping girl that invited them?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno. Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He wondered whether the flowing landscape was not perhaps symbolic of the passage of time.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Quando si vede un arcobaleno si ha l'impressione di essere tra la primavera e l'estate.»
~ Yasunari Kawabata
From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubts and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow. And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruined House once stood.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in
~ Yoko Ono
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
~ Yoko Ono
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
~ Yosa Buson
No trail to follow where the teacher has wandered off- the end of autumn.
~ Yosa Buson
The behavior of the pigeon is beyond reproach, but the mountain cuckoo?
~ Yosa Buson
Chaque pétale qui tombe Vieillit Les branches du prunier
~ Yosa Buson