Quotes About Nature

When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

If I were a dog,' he said to me once, 'I should bark. If I were an owl, I should hoot. There's nothing in either which is good or bad in itself. The only question is, what is the natural gesture?' He thinks it his mission in the world to establish this Law of Thelema. She saw my puzzled look. 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,' she quoted merrily. You must have heard those words before!

Her cheeks were bright with a soft vermilion of the pomegranate mingling with the whiteness of the lily.

My friend tells me that memory fails me in part because nature mercifully wishes to hide from us things which are painful. The spider-web of protective forgetfulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our misfortunes. But the greatest men, says King Lamus, are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their own wounds.

Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower.

Kin to them are the "once-born" of William James, who are incapable of philosophy, magick, or even religion, but seek instinctively a refuge from the horror of contemplating Nature, which they do not comprehend, in soothing-syrup affirmations such as those of Christian Science, Spiritualism, and all the sham 'occult' creeds, as well as the emasculated forms of so-called Christianity.

The question of Magick is a question of discovering and employing hitherto unknown forces of nature. We know that they exist, and we cannot doubt the possibility of mental or physical instruments capable of bringing us into relation with them.

La Naturaleza es más de la mitad del arte.

Del choque de las nubes resulta la electricidad del relámpago y del relámpago la luz.

Todos somos como somos porque hemos sido algo antes

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

descubriera esta isla poblada de seres felices, sencillos, entregados a la vida sana que constituye el estado natural del ser humano, dándole el nombre de la nave en que viajaba.

People, these strange animals who walk on their rear paws and are naturally naked, so they have to wear other animal's skins to keep warm, are ridiculously clumsy and helpless.

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

No se puede apagar el mar, cuando arde en la noche.

Hemos removido la tierra de una forma tan violenta que hemos vuelto a despertar la crueldad de los niños

Nous sommes tous merveilleux, et nous sommes tous répugnants, Alessandro Baricco

Look where the water arrives... it goes up the beach, then it stops... it is precisely that point where it stops [...] something extraordinary happens there, [...], the sea ends there.

Tu ne l'éteins pas, la mer, quand elle brûle dans la nuit.