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Quotes About Nature

The Years from You to Me" Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your eyes you lay the table of love; a bed between summer and autumn. We drink what somebody brewed neither I nor you nor a third: we lap up some empty and last thing. We watch ourselves in the deep sea's mirror and faster pass food to the other: the night is the night, it begins with the morning, beside you it lays me down.
~ Paul Celan
Nachts, wenn das Pendel der Liebe schwingt zwischen Immer und Nie, stößt dein Wort zu den Monden des Herzens und dein gewitterhaft blaues Aug reicht der Erde den Himmel. Aus fernem, aus traumgeschwärztem Hain weht uns an das Verhauchte, und das Versäumte geht um, groß wie die Schemen der Zukunft. Was sich nun senkt und hebt, gilt dem zuinnerst Vergrabnen: blind wie der Blick, den wir tauschen, küßt es die Zeit auf den Mund.
~ Paul Celan
Algo de tal-qual- mão, algo de tenebroso, veio junto com o mato: Depressa -- desesperos, seus oleiros! --, depressa a hora ofereceu o barro, depressa a lágrima estava ganha:-- mais uma vez, com cacho azulado, acercou-nos, este hoje
~ Paul Celan
Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!
~ Paul Celan
Von der sinkenden Walstirn les ich dich ab – du erkennst mich, der Himmel stürzt sich in die Harpune, sechsbeinig hockt unser Stern im Schaum, langsam hißt einer, der's sieht, den Trosthappen: das balzende Nichts.
~ Paul Celan
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
~ Paul Cezanne
I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.
~ Paul Cezanne
If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.
~ Paul Cezanne
Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants to amuse them? What would the sick do without the sight of elephants to invigorate them?
~ Unknown
The forests have taught man liberty.
~ Unknown
the riverbank. There
~ Unknown
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do political opportunists.
~ Paul Collier
Most people would be full of questions," said the youth. "It's the nature of innocence to question, the nature of duty to accept." "And it's the nature of age to be too sure of itself.
~ Unknown
It's not like there's a vote on what's real," said Judith. "It don't matter what either of you believe, the world just gets on with it.
~ Unknown
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
~ Paul D. Boyer
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
~ Unknown
Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
~ Paul David Tripp
Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.
~ Paul David Tripp
Envy is universal because sin is.
~ Paul David Tripp
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given ' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.
~ Paul Davies
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
~ Paul Davies
proceeded to try to force his beliefs down nature's throat. Strange to say, sometimes he was right, importantly right as you will see. Up till now (it was in the late eighteen
~ Unknown
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
~ Paul de Man
Da ward sie zu einer Kuh; er aber ward zu einem Stier und begattete sich mit derselben. Daraus entstand das Rindvieh.
~ Unknown