Quotes About Nature

What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

Marvels, the Earth breeds many marvels, terrible marvels overwhelm us. The heaving arms of the sea embrace and swarm with savage life. And high in the no man's land of night torches hang like swords.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself, but the winds fall upon me with their gusts and gales, and lash me into a fury that is not natural to me.

The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?

The Raven And The Swan A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Aunque a los malvados se les castigue severamente, difícilmente cambian su naturaleza desviada.

it, for numbers of Rooks and starlings

THE WOLF AND THE LAMB A Wolf came upon a Lamb straying from the flock

The North Wind and the Sun

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ugly plumage

One winter a Farmer found a Viper frozen and numb with cold, and out of pity picked it up and placed it in his bosom. The Viper was no sooner revived by the warmth than it turned upon its benefactor and inflicted a fatal bite upon him; and as the poor man lay dying, he cried, "I have only got what I deserved, for taking compassion on so villainous a creature." Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

What's bred in the bone is sure to come out in the flesh.

A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream. It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds. They replied: You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken. Stoop to conquer.

The Lion and the Fox

In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!

Herzen declared that there were "no solutions": history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Her blush was the color of a coral reef, but smooth.

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.

part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having spent ten years with the wolves behind some farmhouse, living off scraps and reveling in the pure air like a half–girl Mowgli, half–woman Thoreau.