Quotes About Nature

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

Ich wandle in der Finsternis. Doch mich leitet der Duft des Ginsters.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

Democratic thinking tends to deduce the consequences of action with the same straightforward confidence as the implications of a principle. What the reactionary, on the other hand, knows how to see is the paradoxical nature of actions, of people, of the world.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

The historical importance of a man rarely corresponds to his intimate nature. History is full of victorious morons.

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary. We only learn what we were born to know.

Depopulate and reforest ? first civilizing rule.

The universe takes revenge on those who treat it as an inanimate mechanism not by making them die humiliated, but rather prosperous and brutish.

Puedes vender cielo, el cielo azul a veces, o gris también a veces, una parcela de tu cielo, el que compraste, piensas tú, con los árboles] de tu huerto, como quien compra el techo con la casa?] ¿Puedes venderme un dólar de cielo, dos kilómetros de cielo, un trozo, el que tú piensas, de tu cielo?

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,I really think the greatest fool is man.

Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

L'homme, dans l'état actuel de la société, me paraît plus corrompu par sa raison que par ses passions. Ses passions (j'entendes ici celles qui appartiennent à l'homme primitif) ont conservé, dans l'ordre social, le peu de nature qu'on y retrouve encore.

La terrasse bruisse d'un va-et-vient de tons montants, descendants, neutres qui font comme des exclamations et des glissades d'eau au milieu du chant des oiseaux.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...