Quotes About Nature

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.

Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to ground on which it was safe to stand—the ground of my own truth, my own nature, with its complex mix of limits and gifts, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.

When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away.

One dwells with God by being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is not.

The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials is a profoundly moral regimen. John Middleton Murray put this truth into words that challenge the conventional concept of goodness to its core: "For a good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

Here is a summertime truth: abundance is a communal act, the joint creation of an incredibly complex ecology in which each part functions on behalf of the whole and, in return, is sustained by the whole. Community not only creates abundance – community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature,the human world might be transformed

Sex was the first dove.

?i vai, biet plugar pe p?mânturile ei roz È™i roditoare, nu m? în?lÈ›am niciodat? la nivelul delirului ei.

Em definitivo, nós somos tão donos do clima como de nós mesmos e deciframos o céu com a mesma perplexidade que os movimentos do nosso coração. Quanto à analogia feita entre a atmosfera e o humor, ela não é segura: um sol esplendoroso pode-nos ferir com a sua exuberância, a neve e o nevoeiro podem-nos mergulhar num júbilo perene.

The sea is not a surface. It is, from top to bottom, an abyss. "If you want to cross the sea, sink.

Nothing human has ever mattered to this world. Nothing human has ever excited the interest of rivers or flowers. Everything fades away in the specks of this blurred haze that the fire of the sun has added to the heat of the light.

De pronto lo antiguo se precipita. Lo antiguo cae de las nubes. Es el rayo mismo. El trueno es la voz de este animal enorme y extremadamente negro que se llama tormenta. Los relámpagos saltan desde lo alto del cielo con el deseo de venir a tocar la tierra.

Por vezes é suficiente a bruma ou a montanha. Por vezes uma árvore que se inclina sob as rajadas do vento é suficiente. Por vezes a noite é suficiente, e não o sonho que torna presente à alma aquilo que lhe falta ou que perdeu.

Se Meaume fosse a natureza, teria feito apenas os relâmpagos ou a Lua ou as vagas cheias de espuma do oceano na tormenta embatendo nos rochedos negros da costa. Ou a nudez desvelada por acaso por baixo de um pano. Ou um osso de animal ou um caroço de sílex encontrado na terra.

nada do que é manufacturado me agradada por comparação com as bruscas paisagens de Deus. (…) À Casa de Ouro ou ao tesouro do imperador Alexandre, prefiro o oceano Atlântico. O Coliseu aos pés do monte Oppio é menos belo que uma trovoada.

é a luz do sol a única coisa bela, pois é ela que permite descobrir todas as coisas.

Ele tinha a impressão de ser um pedaço de gelo que as correntes levavam para onde queriam. Mantinha a cabeça virada para a margem. Olhava a charneca na aurora onde começava a nascer e a errar a bruma. Respirava com dificuldade.

Hétérogénéité naturelle, originaire, tel est le destin de l'art.

Rhynia, haute de cinquante centimètres, doit son nom au lieu de sa découverte dans le comté de Rhynie, en Écosse, où elle fut engloutie lors d'une éruption volcanique. Il y a des Pompéi de fleurs.

La chasse est le fond de l'art. Le guet le fond de la contemplation. La faim le fond du désir. La carnivore le fond de l'admiration.

Certains animaux connaissent des extases peut-être plus puissantes ontologiquement à partir de leur silence et au sein de leur appartenance au milieu, que nous-mêmes à partir du langage et dans notre désappartenance progressive encore qu'intermittente à la nature. Certains cerfs d'automne pris dans leur brume sont plus au courant de l'intrigue originelle que les dieux.

So many pebbles on that beach—millions—all of them worn smooth by the sea's relentless grinding, but not this one. This one had stayed sharp.