"nature"タグの名言

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.