nature Quotes

"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

"You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it."

"The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic."

"The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair."

"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?"

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of... ...

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."

"* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars."