Quotes About Nature

A glacier is like a river; the level places where it spreads out tranquilly are followed by turbulent falls.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

Bees will not work except in darkness; Thought will not work except in Silence; neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Are you not pleased to have seen your grandparents? Is that not enough happiness for one day? Are you not glad that you have restored the old blackbird to life? Listen to him singing! As you look for the Blue Bird, dear children, accustom yourselves to love the gray birds which you find on your way.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

el menor secreto de un objeto, que vemos en la naturaleza que no es humana, toma quizás una parte más directa en el profundo enigma de nuestros fines y de nuestros orígenes que el secreto de nuestras pasiones más arrebatadoras y con sentido más complaciente estudiadas

Somos de tal naturaleza que nada nos lleva tan lejos y tan alto como los impulsos de nuestros errores

There is always a wonderful silence here…. One could hear the water sleep….

Observamos aquí, una vez más, que todo el genio reside en la especie, la vida o la naturaleza; y que el individuo es más o menos estúpido. Sólo en el hombre hay emulación real entre las dos inteligencias, tendencia cada vez más precisa, cada vez más activa a una especie de equilibrio que es el gran secreto de nuestro porvenir.

You shall not find, in nature's immense crucible, a single living being that has shown a like suppleness, a similar abundance of forms, the same prodigious faculty of accommodation to our wishes. This is because, in the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

the crows are like a harrow to unbroken ground they turn it loose they give it air

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.

What we call 'natural' is frequently no more than bad theory.

The unfinished nature of phenomenology and the inchoate style in which it proceeds are not the signs of failure; they were inevitable because phenomenology's task was to reveal the mystery of the world and the mystery of reason.

There is an adherence, a strange kinship between the human and the animal...of the animal as variant of humanity and of humanity as variant of animality.

Visible being is natural...But language, art, history gravitate around the invisible (ideality).

The concept of Nature does not evoke only the residue of what had not been constructed by me, but also a productivity which is not ours, although we can use it--that is, an originary productivity that continues beneath the artificial creations of man. It both partakes of the most ancient, and is something always new.

The unfurling of the animal is like a pure wake that is related to no boat.

There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency.

The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a process of nature.

Moonlight and sunlight in our memory are presented before all else, not as sensory contents, but as a certain type of symbiosis, a certain manner that the outside has of invading us, a certain manner that we have of receiving it.