“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
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“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
“If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”
“As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”