Quotes About Nature

Ai confundat cerul cu stelele reflectate noaptea pe suprafata unui lac

Fringilla' he answered after a while. 'You're a woman a man can only dream about. My Fault, my only fault, is that I don't have the nature of a dreamer

mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

Lentement, en silence, au milieu du parfum de la menthe, de la sauge et des orties, ils descendirent vers la rivière Soupir. En suivant l'escalier. Le long d'un ruisseau qui se nommait Murmure.   ***

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. Nicodemus

it is in the nature of all violence to lead inevitably to crime.

Dandelion to Geralt: Change your job and become a priest. You'd be decent with your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people's nature and every single thing. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem. I know very few prists who do. Become a priest and stop complaining about yourself.

Bumbler is right on one account: the aeschna has as much in common with a cinerea as I do with a fox. We both like to eat duck.

The line snapped with a crack and both fishermen, losing their balance, fell onto the wet sand. "Bloody hell!" Dandelion yelled so loud the echo resounded through the osiers. "So much grub escaped! I hope you die, you son-of-a-catfish!

I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

then catch a few carp from the fishponds for

Zamykam oczy i widzÄ™ zÅ'ote iskry. CzujÄ™ zapach jabÅ'ek. Branwen. Zapach piór sokoÅ'a siedzÄ…cego na mojej rÄ™kawicy, gdy wracam z Å'owów. ZÅ'ote iskry. WidzÄ™ jej twarz. WidzÄ™ krzywiznÄ™ policzka, maÅ'y, lekko zadarty nos. KrÄ…gÅ'o?? ramienia. WidzÄ™ j?… NoszÄ™ j?… NoszÄ™ jÄ… na wewnÄ™trznej stronie powiek.

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

We were given the ability to do extraordinary things with nature, occasionally literally against her. And at the same time what is most natural and simple in nature was taken from us.

A tak wÅ'aÅ›nie byÅ'o w przypadku dziewczynek urodzonych po za?mieniu, u których stwierdzono wrÄ™cz niepoczytalnÄ… skÅ'onno?? do okrucieÅ"stwa, agresji, gwaÅ'townych wybuchów gniewu, a tak?e wybujaÅ'y temperament. – U ka?dej baby mo?na stwierdzi? coÅ› takiego.

Instead of living according to Nature we have begun to destroy it. And what have we got for it? The air is poisoned by the stink of smelting furnaces, the rivers and brooks are tainted by slaughter houses and tanneries, forests are being cut down without a thought

Statt so zu leben, wie es die Natur uns heißt, haben wir begonnen, diese Natur zu vernichten.

They are not demons, not devils . . . Worse than that. They are people.

Elaine blath, Feainnewedd. That meant: Beautiful flower, child of the Sun.

O Bom ou o Mal, a Luz ou as Trevas, a Ordem ou o Caos? São apenas símbolos, na realidade não existe esse tipo de polaridade! Todos carregam a Luz e as Trevas um pouco de um e um pouco do outro. Essa conversa não tem sentido. Não tem sentido. Não vou conseguir me convencer do misticismo.

The sun shines differently, the air is different, water is not as it used to be. The things we used to eat, made use of, are dying, diminishing, deteriorating. We never cultivated the land. Unlike you humans we never tore at it with hoes and ploughs. To you, the earth pays a bloody tribute. It bestowed gifts on us. You tear the earth's treasures from it by force. For us, the earth gave birth and blossomed because it loved us. - 197

Remember, because this is important. Graveirs, like ghouls and other monsters in this category, do not have their own ecological niche. They are relicts from the age of the interpenetration of spheres. Killing them does not upset the order and interconnections of nature which prevail in our present sphere. In this sphere these monsters are foreign and there is no place for them.

Why don't you humans finally realize that your domination of the world is as natural and repellant as lice multiplying in a sheepskin coat? You could propose we cohabit with lice and get the same reaction—and I'd listen to the lice as attentively if they, in return for our acknowledgment of their supremacy, were to agree to allow common use of the coat.