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Quotes About Nature

Life is like that; all things come to an end. There are some trees where owls have nested for hundreds of years, and yet at some point they leave it empty, don't return there.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
But that was how it had to go, for the death of a rotten tree is always rapid: one violent shake and over it goes. Its broad canopy, which for many years rose up in its place in the forest, has suddenly vanished. For a while there is a space in the forest cover, but soon the space is filled by new growth, as if nothing had happened.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
You might almost think that the forest is itself to blame for the people leaving its midst, because it behaves like a conqueror, spreading out in the footsteps of its former master.
~ Andrus Kivirähk
You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Our world is in equilibrium. The annihilation, the killing, of any creatures that inhabit this world upsets that equilibrium. And a lack of equilibrium brings closer extinction; extinction and the end of the world as we know it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
When there's hunger you don't share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Nature doesn't know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there, where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Confundí el cielo con las estrellas reflejadas por la noche en la superficie de un estanque.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Mylisz niebo z gwiazdami odbitymi nocÄ… na powierzchni stawu.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
We are the children of Mother Nature. And though we do not respect our mother, though we often worry her and cause her pain, though we break her heart, she loves us.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
She was warm and smelt like a wet sparrow.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The sea is free and open. Trade is free. Profit is sacred. Love the trade and profit of your neighbour like your own. To hinder someone's trading and profiting is to break the laws of nature.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Padlina bÄ™dzie dla was, czarodziejów, nikt wam jej nie zabierze. Chyba ?e inne sÄ™py.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Little dryads fell asleep listening raptly to the wind blowing in the trees. Little witchers fell asleep listening raptly to their aching arms and legs. Our eyes also shone like Braenn's when we listened to the tales of Vesemir in Kaer Morhen. But that was long ago… So long ago… 'Well
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Isn't it beautiful here? Idyllic, damn it. A feast for the eyes!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The unicorn discovered several clumps of yellowed thistles and ate them with relish. This time Ciri did not join him. But when Little Horse found some lizard's eggs in the sand, she ate and he watched her.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Miners and geologists, for whom the bleakness of Kovir's barren mountains and rocks was an infallible signal that if there was such paucity on the surface there must be wealth beneath, also headed North. For nature loves equilibrium.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
So many little animals, oh my. There can't be so many anywhere else.' 'There can't,' he muttered. 'Nowhere else. This is Brokilon.' 'What?' 'Brokilon. The Last Place.' 'I don't understand.' 'No one understands. No one wants to understand.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski