Quotes About Nature

L'homme fut un assemblage d'un peu de boule et d'eau. Pourquoi une femme ne serait-elle pas faite de rosée, de vapeurs terrestres et de rayons de lumière, des débris d'un arc-en-ciel condensés?

Omul a fost z?mislit din lut ?i ap?. De ce o femeie n-ar fi n?scut? din rou?, aburi p?mânte?ti ?i raze de lumin?, din r?m??i?ele unui curcubeu f?râmat? Ce este cu putin???... ?i ce e cu neputin???...

Ah! Si pudiese llegar y echarme a las rodillas de doña Mencía —me digo a mí mismo—, si pudiera ponerme bajo la salvaguardia de mi respetable madre, fantasmas, monstruos que os habéis ensañado conmigo, ¿os atreveréis a violar ese asilo? Allí volveré a encontrar, junto con los sentimientos de la naturaleza, los principios saludables de los que me he apartado; ellos serán mi escudo frente a vosotros.

God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

The primary element in any civilization is a stable relation between man and his environment. When man becomes the plaything of abstract decisions, a civilization can no longer be created.

La libertad pertenece al orden de los relámpagos, no al de la luz eléctrica.

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

The first private clocks appeared in the sixteenth century. Thenceforward, time was an abstract measure separated from the traditional rhythms of life and nature.

Then there is the modern passion for nature. When it is not stockbrokers out after a moose, it is a crowd of brainless conformists camping out on order and as they are told. Nowhere is there any initiative or eccentricity.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Muchos espíritus distinguidos, aún hoy, parecen no poder aceptar ni incluso comprender que de una fuente de ruido la selección haya podido, ella sola, sacar todas las músicas de la biosfera.

FROM THE TIME that Claudine was an infant, she saw me butchering deer carcasses, plucking pheasants, skinning frogs, or eviscerating rabbit or squab. She understood and knew naturally that there was nothing cruel or malicious in those processes. They were a normal part of life. In fact, most of the deer meat we enjoyed was road kill that otherwise would have gone to waste; we stewed it in red wine or roasted or grilled it, turning extra meat into sausages.

Démons et merveilles Vents et marées Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

La vie est une cerise La mort est un noyau L'amour un cerisier

Nuestro amor tirita y el sol también.

Notre Père qui êtes aux cieux. Restez-y. Et nous nous resterons sur la terrre. Qui est quelquefois si jolie...

Pues, en fin, ¿qué diferencia hay entre un pagano y un cristiano? No mucha. Una pequeña diferencia acerca de la interpretación de la Naturaleza. El pagano cree en la naturaleza tal como esta se muestra; el cristiano cree en la naturaleza, pero según el reverso que la sustenta

I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.

Olvidados en las selvas de Chiapas, los templos y las pirámides de Palenque o de Yaxchilán han sobrevivido durante más de mil años a los asaltos de los elementos y de las plantas, en tanto que los de México sucumbieron a la voluntad destructora de los hombres.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

The life of a flower is short and full of suffering. Today will be the end of yours as well!