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Quotes About Nature

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
There is always something. That is confession's nature.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Almost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming ever more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere. But
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~ Viggo Mortensen
If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.
~ Viggo Mortensen
a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
~ Vikas Swarup
Nature. He disliked its prickly stems, its bramble and bush, the obstinate precision of its cycles, its preconfigured calendar, the coded tapestry of its hills, standing stubbornly in the way of human progress.
~ Viken Berberian
What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.
~ Vikram Chandra
Men, Shalini said sometimes, there is madness in men. He always kept quiet, but he always wanted to say, the madness is in their bones, not in their hearts, not in their heads.
~ Vikram Chandra
In a clear brook With joyful haste The whimsical trout Shot past me like an arrow I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.
~ Vikram Seth
A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves.
~ Unknown
Don't look at the shape -- look at the character.
~ Unknown
Every plant teaches us. When the blossom dies, the fruit appears in it.
~ Unknown
Never pluck flowers if you love them, for a thorn loves them more than you do.
~ Unknown
Our life is like a tree which is pruning itself.
~ Unknown
Science is the father of war and Nature is the mother of peace.
~ Unknown
Talking about lions is not the same as facing them in the forest.
~ Unknown
The brute is an imperfect animal compared to man who is a perfect beast.
~ Unknown
The water from the river becomes salty when it gets into the ocean.
~ Unknown
What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.
~ Unknown
The human is a being created according to Nature's laws and is therefore dependent upon them. In the course of time our magnum opus, our self-created pseudo-culture, has become a meaningless and incoherent monstrosity. Through the immense power of technology it has reached such gargantuan proportions that it almost equals the power of Nature herself. At the very least it is already able to interfere destructively with her great life-giving functions.
~ Viktor Schauberger
Whoever accelerates the media of earth, water and air centrifugally perishes unconditionally, for in so doing they reduce the Blood of the Earth (water) to a pathogenic state and make it the most dangerous enemy of all living and growing things.
~ Viktor Schauberger