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Quotes About Nature

he sees immortal blackberry bushes, darkened by the sun, clinging to the rocks with their long shoots.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means 'the dropping of petals'. The world has dropped its petals.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And there remain blades of grass that are succulent and green, as if they have forgotten it's the end of October, and that it freezes at night.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Med štirikratnimi menjavami letnih ?asov drevo ne ve, da obstaja ?as in da si letni ?asi sledijo. Za drevo obstajajo vse vrednosti hkrati. Zima je del poletja, jesen del pomladi, del vro?ine je hlad, del rojevanja je smrt. Ogenj je del vode in zemlja del zraka.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Drevesom se zdijo ljudje ve?ni - od nekdaj se sprehajajo v senci lip po Široki cesti, niso ne negibni ne v gibanju. Za drevesa ljudje obstajajo ve?no, toda to je tako, kot da ne bi nikoli obstajali.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Mensen denken dat ze intenser leven dan dieren, dan planten en zeker dan dingen. Dieren vermoeden dat ze intenser leven dan planten en dingen. Planten dromen dat ze intenser leven dan dingen. En dingen duren voort en in dat voortduren zit meer leven dan in al het andere.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
In fact, no real heresy could ever come about in Polish. By its nature, the Polish language is obedient to every orthodoxy.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
The world has dropped its petals.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmna?amy j? jak moje warzywa czy jab?onki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
~ Olive Schreiner
Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life.
~ Unknown
Nature can do more than physicians.
~ Oliver Cromwell
I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
~ Oliver Herford
e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.
~ Oliver Lodge
Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.
~ Unknown
A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.
~ Unknown