Quotes About Nature

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

it may rain or it may shine, probably at the same time. (Lamentations 5:23)

Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. In other words, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable. Freedom is here used not in its positive sense of freedom to but in its negative sense of freedom from, namely freedom from instinctual determination of his actions.

Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

El hombre no domina la naturaleza, sino que, fundándose sobre el conocimiento de unas cuantas leyes y secretos naturales, se ha erigido en la posición de dueño de aquellos otros seres que carecen de tal conocimiento.

Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich über das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlässt.

That human nature and society can have conflicting demands, and hence that a whole society can be sick, is an assumption which was made very explicitly by Freud, most extensively in his Civilization and Its Discontent.

THE GREAT PROMISE OF UNLIMITED PROGRESS—the promise of domination of nature, of material abundance, of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and of unimpeded personal freedom—has sustained the hopes and faith of the generations since the beginning of the industrial age.

Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.

we—the proud people who started out to dominate nature—have become slaves of the very economic machine which we created in the process. We dominated nature, but our machine dominates us. We are perhaps more dominated by the artifacts we have created with our machines, than in many cultures people are dominated by nature which they have not learned to master.

El paraíso es un estado de unidad original con la naturaleza.

Needless to say that in this beautiful poem Goethe expresses the core of his concept of investigating nature.

A meno che non traggano piacere l'uno dall'altro, perché si stringono come amanti? Senza la Terra, come fiorirebbero il fiore e la pianta? Che cosa produrrebbe l'acqua o il calore del Cielo?

El amor a la vida es el núcleo, un núcleo muy concreto y real, de todo tipo de amor. Quien crea que ama a los seres humanos sin amar la vida, puede desear apegarse a otra persona, pero no amarla de verdad. Nos imaginamos entonces a una persona que ama todo lo que crece y está vivo, que se siente atraída por el crecimiento infantil, por la maduración. Para semejante persona, incluso lo que no está vivo, como una piedra o el agua, se convierte en algo vivo.

Regard Earth and Heaven as endowed with intelligence, since they do the work of intelligent beings.

Az ember biológiai gyengesége alkotja az emberi kultúra alapját.

Mental health is achieved if man develops into full maturity according to the characteristics and laws of human nature. Mental illness consists in the failure of such development.

The act of disobedience set Adam and Eve free and opened their eyes. They recognized each other as strangers and the world outside them as strange and even hostile. Their act of disobedience broke the primary bond with nature and made them individuals. "Original sin," far from corrupting man, set him free; it was the beginning of history. Man had to leave the Garden of Eden in order to learn to rely on his own powers and to become fully human.

Bu nas?l oldu? Nas?l oldu da, insano?lu, do?aya kar?? kazand??? utkunun doru?undayken, kendi yaratt??? ?eylerin tutsa?? haline geldi, nas?l oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle kar?? kar??ya kald??

that man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.9

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

Umut yok olduÄŸunda, yaÅŸam olgusal ya da gizil (potansiyel) olarak sona ermiÅŸtir. Umut, yaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?nda, insan ruhunun dinamiÄŸinde varolan bir öÄŸedir. YaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?n? oluÅŸturan bir baÅŸka öÄŸeye çok yak?ndan baÄŸl?d?r. Bu öge, inanç'd?r.