Quotes About Nature

Her own sea-grey with green to his sea-green with grey.

Hild looked deeper, letting her mind sink into the glimmer and shadow, as she might in the world, looking at the leaves, or lying on her back watching the clouds, letting the thoughts come, letting the things she already knew arrange themselves in a pattern, a story that other might call a prophecy.

Autumn, like grief, changes everything.

Hild roamed the vale and its thicket of woods, collecting herb and watching the world slow down, fade, and tidy itself away for winter.

The late afternoon sky over the lake this time was grey, but the water laughed and sparkled, reflecting the blue sky and other time and place.

Hild slipped away to sit in the moon shadow of a tufted dune with the sheathed knife in her lap and listen to the night breeze in the grass and think about nothing in particular.

She loved peregrines in winter: solitary, fierce, and dangerous, their cries clean and bright as a blade.

Her scent-earthy and light, like the smell of crisp baby carrots when you first pull them from the ground-mixed with that of sawdust and leaf mold.

His hazel eyes shone with something. Perhaps it was the reflection of new leaves. She hoped so.

Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.

Al repudiar los ritos, el hombre se reduce a animal que copula y come.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes, the struggle is joined between perverted freedoms and just freedoms.

Modern man no longer dares to preach that the individual is born as a blank slate. Too many mishaps have taught him that we are the oppressed heirs of our family, our race, our blood. Blood is not an innocent liquid, but the viscous paste of history.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress has transformed it.