“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.”
Nature does not need us, but we desperately need it. These quotes celebrate the natural world — forests, oceans, mountains, seasons — and the perspective that comes from spending time in places where human concerns feel very small.
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.”
“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
“Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.”
“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.”
“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.”
“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.”
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”