Quotes About Nature

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.

Art does not come from commandments, or follow logic or the consensus opinion of scientific experts, but springs fresh every time from stone and wood and green sprig of earth. It is the stuff that makes good gardeners, hunters, farmers, builders, carpenters, poets, bards, sculptors, painters, drawers, healers, physicians, and herbalists.

The capstone to the entire edifice of herbal medicine is the effective use of herbs, no matter what models we are using to understand the organism.

every herb and poison ultimately has a primal essence or identity pattern and this, whether delivered in a gentle or a toxic envelope, possesses curative power.

In short, Sweet Leaf is a plant which will draw out the fire.

For Paracelsus, the basis of empiricism was the experience that Nature is alive and intelligent. Since this knowledge is subjective, it is hidden. Thus, the individual mineral, plant, or disease has an innate arcanum, intelligence, virtue, power, or energy.

I always used to say, "Herbs work on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of existence." Later I came to understand that they also work on the magical level.

in its deepest sense, suffering is intimately linked to a misapprehension of the nature of reality. R

only the heat of that compassion united with wisdom can melt the ore in our minds, so as to liberate the gold of our fundamental nature.

Para el enamorado, una mujer bella es un objeto de deseo; para el eremita, una distracción; y para el lobo, un buen bocado.

The common factor to all of these experiences would seem to be the momentary disappearance of inner conflicts. The person feels in harmony with the world and with herself. Someone enjoying such an experience, such as walking through a serene wilderness, has no particular expectations beyond the simple act of walking. She simply is, here and now, free and open.

The fleeting experience of pleasure is dependent upon circumstance, on a specific location or moment in time. It is unstable by nature, and the sensation it evokes soon becomes neutral or even unpleasant. Likewise, when repeated it may grow insipid or even lead to disgust;

Nature has evolved to be the inventor of complexity. Just as a jazz musician embroiders around a theme, thus improvising new melodic phrases according to his inspiration and the public's reactions, nature plays spontaneously with the physical laws that were fixed at the start of the universe. It uses them to create novelty9

In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.

Buddhism affirms that the ultimate nature of phenomena is emptiness and that emptiness carries within it an infinite potential of manifestation.

I dare anyone to find me a lovelier day!

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

And there are flowers in her hair, always jasmine.

what I feel with regard to our Mass, for instance, is the exact opposite of what you think you would be bound to feel. I feel at Mass as if I were breathing the kind of air you breathe on the mountains in spring, or in a wood, or in the fields at dawn on a spring day; something where the freshness is fresh beyond all sweetness: it is more than sweetness, it is simply fresh--unspeakably fresh . . . that is all, and that is enough. . . .

Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fond commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement.

Funny weather today,' said the ferryman, bending slowly to his oars. 'In the morning you wake up to such a mist that you can't see two fathoms distance. And then about ten o'clock out comes the sun. One says to oneself "Here's spring on the way". And no sooner said than hailstorms set in for the afternoon. And now the wind's getting up, and there's going to be quite a blow, that's certain. Funny weather.

For Spenser, the perpetual human dilemma seems to stem from what he regards as the two ultimate demands of our physical nature, the need to labor and the need to relax and have pleasure, the aggressive and the permissive instincts which Professor Nelson has identified as the 'forward' and the 'forward passions.

The mountains had bestowed on us their beauties, and we adored them with a child's simplicity and revered them with a monk's veneration of the divine. Annapurna

Yes! A fierce and savage wind tore at us. We were on top of Annapurna! 8,075 meters, 26,493 feet.