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Quotes About Nature

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~ Helen Keller
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always Beautiful.
~ Unknown
Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only when you realize this do you become free.
~ Unknown
Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people never thought you would.
~ Unknown
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.
~ Unknown
The breeze was too sweet, and the sun too warm for a thought like that to be spoken.
~ Madeline Miller
current. "He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
~ Madeline Miller
I passed a pear tree drifted with white blossoms. A fish splashed in the moonlit river. With every step I felt lighter. An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.
~ Madeline Miller
hated him so much I could not speak. He leaned forward in his chair. "May I give you some advice? If you are truly his friend, you will help him leave this soft heart behind. He's going to Troy to kill men, not rescue them." His dark eyes held me like swift-running current. "He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
~ Madeline Miller
roots clung hard a moment before yielding
~ Madeline Miller
On peut apprendre à une vipère à vous manger dans la main sans pour autant lui enlever le goût de mordre.
~ Madeline Miller
You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite P.85
~ Madeline Miller
That word, nymph, paced out the length and breadth of our futures. In our language, it means not just goddess, but bride.
~ Madeline Miller
The dying light was in his hair, and his face was sweet with evening.
~ Madeline Miller
Podía transformar a un pez en pájaro, pelear con mi leona y luego echarme sobre su vientre con la melena suelta. Quería esuchar sus gritos y resuellos. ¡Me ha mirado! ¡Me voy a convertir en rana!
~ Madeline Miller
Es un arma, un asesino. No lo olvides. Puedes usar una lanza como cayado para los paseos, pero eso no va a cambiar su naturaleza.
~ Madeline Miller
D??ar?da mevsim de?i?mi?ti. Gökyüzü ellerini açt?, yer de o ellere uzanmak için ?i?ti.
~ Madeline Miller
Sorunun bir me?e fidesi gibi oldu?unu dü?ündüm. Topra??n üstünde basit, ye?il bir filiz ama alt?nda dall? budakl? kökler çukur aç?yor, derinlere yay?l?yor.
~ Madeline Miller
days slipping by in idyll.
~ Madeline Miller
I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it-in such way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom
~ Madeline Miller
Es posible domesticar a una serpiente para que coma de tu mano, pero nadie le va a quitar nunca el gusto por morder.
~ Madeline Miller
Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other's bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
~ Madeline Miller
A partir de ese momento nuestra amistad se precipitó como los torrentes de montaña en primavera.
~ Madeline Miller
I think we must leave very soon, or else stay the winter." The window was open; the breeze passed over us. It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table and see what you would put on it.
~ Madeline Miller