Quotes About Nature

ÄŒlovÄ›k by mÄ›l chodit na hory jen se sobÄ› rovnými.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.

Choose only one master — Nature.

Painting is the grandchild of Nature.

Naar de vertraging der vlakten verlang ik, naar het gras der rust, naar wolken van eenzaam varen en de wattenwind der zuiverheid, naar de lommerdorpen van ontspanning en pastorieën der voltooide liefde.

Ich glaube an einen Fluss der vom Meer zu den Bergen fließt ich fordere nicht mehr von der Poesie als diesen Fluss zu beschreiben.

Niet te geloven dat ik knaap nog een vers schreef over de zilverwitheid van een berkestam en om mij heen grootse dronkenschap van de bevrijding: het water was whisky geworden. Alles zoop en naaide, heel Europa was een groot matras en de hemel het plafond van een derderangshotel. En ik bedeesde jongeling moest nodig de reine berk bezingen en zijn bescheiden bladerpracht.

Man is a successful animal, that's all.

Quelques corbeaux passèrent au ras du plafond des nuages, se posèrent en grappes noires sur l'orme dressé au milieu de la plaine.

thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

But this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself:

We must in the end acknowledge the infirmity of our nature

Man, being finite in nature can only have knowledge perfectness of which is limited.

Nature teaches me that so many other bodies exist around mine of which some are to be avoided, some sought after.

Je puis me persuader d'avoir été fait tel par la nature que je puisse aisément me tromper même dans les choses que je crois comprendre avec le plus d'évidence et de certitude.

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal

He cannot be a deceiver, since the light of nature teaches us that fraud and deception necessarily proceed from some defect.

Porque por naturaleza, considerada en general, no entiendo otra cosa sino Dios mismo, o bien el orden y la disposición que Dios ha establecido en las cosas creadas. Y por mi naturaleza en particular, no entiendo otra cosa sino la complexión o reunión de todo aquello que Dios me ha dado.

Yo soy un ser que piensa, siente, quiere, ama y odia; esta naturaleza que me rodea es bella y luminosa, y la vida nos ha sido dada por un Dios justo y benévolo, para vivirla con entereza y plenitud.»