Quotes About Nature

Si svegliò al canto degli uccelli, con la bruma del primo mattino che saliva oltre l'erba alta dov'era sdraiata. Sul volto erano impressi i segni delle margherite schiacciate, i fiorellini richiusi sotto il viso fragile.

The flapping of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest can alter a hurricane hundreds of miles in the distance. Isn't it amazing that something so small can change the outcome of another thing so far away?

Le dije a mi hija, la primera vez que experimentó amor, que no tratara de aprisionarlo. —Piensa que estás en un cálido estanque en verano —le dije—, con círculos concéntricos a tu alrededor. Rayos dorados de sol inundan tu cabello, acarician tu cara. Inhálalo, respíralo; jamás te dejará.

Imagine if Uluru is absolute serenity and the ocean is homicidically mental, then my mother has been driving up and down the Pacific Highway for as long as I can remember.

Everybody knows you can dispose of a body in the swamp and it will never be found until somebody cuts open a gator one day and sees bones.

Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love is volatile and tempestuous and forgiving.

For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.

Si soy agua, ¿qué sentido tiene decirte que sí, que voy a casarme contigo? Ésa sí sería una mentira. El agua no puede retenerse. Sí, te regaré, te prodigaré con mi riqueza, te refrescaré, saciaré tu sed, pero qué sé yo lo que será el curso de mi río, nunca te bañarás dos veces en la misma novia. 

War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test. I think war reveals only one of our deeper natures. I would rather have shown you my deeper peace-time nature.

On n'est vraiment indulgent que quand on est amoureux fou; dès qu'on aime un rien moins, la vacherie naturelle reprend le dessus.

era, sin discusión, la más graciosa: poseía esa maravillosa soltura de movimientos, que es la suprema injusticia de la naturaleza, ya que la gracia se otorga o se deniega en el momento de nacer sin que ningún esfuerzo posterior pueda paliar la ausencia de la misma.

L'amour concentre la certitude et le doute : on est sûr d'être aimé autant qu'on en doute, non pas tour à tour, mais en une simultanéité déconcertante. Chercher à se débarrasser de ce versant dubitatif en posant mille questions à l'aimée, c'est nier la nature radicalement ambigüe de l'amour.

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best.

L'amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatura dubitativa facendo mille domande alla propria amata, significa negare la natura radicalmente ambigua dell'amore.

La gente percibe que soy el abono ideal para sus plantaciones secretas.

Ya que las plantas, incluso las verduras, no por el hecho de tener una vida imperceptible al ojo humano dejan de tener vida.

Schopenhauer ve en el amor una artimaña del instinto de procreación:

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth".

It's true that someone will always say that good and evil don't exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it's because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn't seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

Los suspiros son aire y van al aire. Las lágrimas son agua y van al mar, dime mujer, cuando el amor se olvida, ¿sabes a donde va? –Becquer

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.