Quotes About Nature

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

history of mankind consists in a departure from a condition of undifferentiated primal unity with himself and with nature,

The whole nature of the "dialectical" or "poetical" imagination is another problem urgently needing examination; and there is a particular need for psychoanalysis, as part of the psychoanalysis of psychoanalysis, to become conscious of the dialectical, poetical, mystical stream that runs in its blood.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

The key to the Jewish calendar is Nature.

Few experiences can match the heady pleasure of trailing one's hand gently through the cool smoothness of water, of feeling the surging movement, the gentle increase of pressure and caress between the fingers with each pull of the oars.

I return to the rhythm of water, to the dark song I was in my mother's belly.

In every blade of grass rises the strength of the sun.

Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of the power of a thing . . . I romanticize something when I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the known the dignity of the unknown, and the finite the appearance of the infinite.

Everything is seed.

Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört, der weiß wie Wolken schmecken.

While the poets were above all interested in the fluid and fugitive aspects of Nature, others desired, by slogging away with a hatchet and pickax, to discover the interior structure of Nature and the relationship between the separate morsels. The spirit of our friend Nature dissolved in their hands, leaving nothing but throbbing or dead parts.

Our body is a moulded river

What is nature? An encyclopedic systematic index or plan of our spirit. Why should we be content with the mere catalogue of our treasures—let us examine them for ourselves—and work with them and use them in diverse ways.

La esencia de la enfermedad es tan oscura como la de la vida.

The gods disappeared with their following—nature stood forlorn and lifeless. Arid count and strict measure bound her with iron chains.

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.