Quotes About Nature

Porque sua mulher vivia com o coração na mão e estendia este como oferta para o ar do mundo, entregue por completo ao momento presente, como vivem as rosas do campo e as rolas dos céus.

Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor.

El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. Acaso llore o ría por dentro, pero por dentro acaso también el cangrejo resuelva ecuaciones de segundo grado

Through women you will see the entire universe.

De la cuna nos viene la tristeza y también de la cuna la alegría...

Cuántas veces, sentado solo y solitario en uno de los bancos verdes de aquella plazuela, vio el incendio del ocaso sobre un tejado y alguna vez destacarse sobre el oro en fuego del espléndido arrebol el contorno de un gato negro sobre la chimenea de una casa!

El hombre nace bueno, es naturalmente bueno; la sociedad le malea y pervierte...

es que a falta de animales domésticos en que descargar el peso de la animalidad de la vida habría el hombre llegado a su humanidad?

Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

A vida no campo é assim: nos anos de abundância, quando chove muito e nas alturas certas, enchem-se os celeiros e as despensas de comida, todos ficam felizes e há festas nas aldeias a todo o tempo para celebrar as colheitas. Nos anos de seca, os prados fica secos, a fruta apodrece nas árvores, a caça foge, e as pessoas andam tristes e às vezes passam fome.

O mal é nosso - culpa nossa, natureza nossa.

a terra pertence ao dono, mas a paisagem pertence a quem a sabe olhar.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

It is true that life has no meaning, if by that we mean a supreme goal built into the fabric of nature and human experience, a goal that is valid for every individual. But it does not follow that life cannot be given meaning.

Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

whenever a culture has had a run of good luck and for a while seems indeed to have found a way of controlling the forces of nature. At that point it is logical for it to begin believing that it is a chosen people who need no longer fear any major setback. The

natural processes do not take human desires into account. They are deaf and blind to our needs, and thus they are random in contrast with the order we attempt to establish through our goals.

Poets make much of the majestic eagle soaring freely among the snowy peaks. But the eyes of the eagle are generally focused on the ground, searching for rodents lurking in the shadows. The lives of much of humanity could be summed up in similar terms. Let

It is probably true that humans, like the majority of mammalian species, are not monogamous by nature. It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other's company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially physical challenges alone are enough to sustain flow, but unless romance and genuine care also develop, the relationship will grow stale.

There are no strict formulas, however, for how much time people actually have to work. It seems, for instance, that the early hunter-gatherers, like their present-day descendants living in the inhospitable deserts of Africa and Australia, spent only three to five hours each day on what we would call working—providing for food, shelter, clothing, and tools. They spent the rest of the day in conversation, resting, or dancing.

the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind.

El universo no es hostil, pero tampoco es amigable– en palabras de J.H. Holmes–; sencillamente es indiferente.»