Quotes About Nature

Sei uno di città. Il tuo ordine delle cose è circondato da mura, là dentro magari le tue sagge parole varranno qualcosa. Ma guardati intorno! Una valle solcata da burroni, rive scoscese e coperte di vegetazione. Come pensi di seguire il fiume?

Rocked, he sank into a sea of chamomile as it grew agitated and seethed.

Du hast den Himmel mit den Sternen verwechselt, die sich nachts im Teich spiegeln.

Intoleranta si superstitia au fost intotdeauna trasaturi ale prostilor din multime si niciodata, din cate cred eu, nu vor fi smulse din radacini, pentru ca sunt la fel de vesnice ca prostia insasi. Acolo unde astazi se inalta muntii vor fi candva mari, acolo unde astazi se involbureaza marile vor fi maine pustiuri. Numai prostia tot prostia ramane. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditatii despre viatam fericire si bunastare

the Dank Wilderness was so dank it would have been difficult to imagine anything danker

Lille does nae let us harm anything. Any creature.' 'Of course,' Dandelion butted in, 'country prophetesses grow from the same tree as druids. And a druid will go so far as to wish the gadfly sucking his blood to enjoy its meal.

every being has its own continuation in nature and survives in some way or another. The end of one is the beginning of another, there are no limits to possibility; or at least nature doesn't know any.

Does everything have to make sense? It's Beltane.

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

Sometimes I get up before sunrise to watch the way the dark thins out and objects slowly reveal themselves, the trees, the rest of the landscape. You can hear the river below and roosters in the village. The light of dawn, cold and blue, gradually fills the world, and it's the same in every place I've been.

This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

le village de Sfîntu Gheorghe possédait en lui une sorte d'héroïsme résigné. Soumis aux éléments, plein de précarité, condamné à l'oubli, il se blottissait contre la terre ferme, tel un nid d'hirondelles. (p. 227)

My father believed that the truth was like a wild animal--just let it loose and it will defend itself.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Although Yamashita and Amemiya grow and prepare their own food—both of which definitely take a lot of time—they seem to be suffused in timelessness, in an endless present.

If I'm busy, I might overlook something magnificent and splendid like a rare mushroom in the forest … and who knows when I might see such an amazing thing again?

One haiku hints at both the joys and sadness of a solitary monk on a pilgrimage in the winter: Even in my empty begging bowl A piece of hail.

What were the things that really challenged me, made me wake up to my way of thinking that presupposed an industrialized system? In five words. Gentle. Small. Humble. Slow. Simple.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

My art helps make sense of things.

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.