Nature and Elements

The imagination is man’s power over nature.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled underfoot before one’s time.

It is better for people to be like the beasts… They should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.

I believe that all creatures who can have young ones together are very much the same.

The psychological roots of war are, in my opinion, biologically rooted in the aggressive nature of the male creature… Some animals—the bull and the rooster—surpass us in this regard.

O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird,

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,

One impulse from a vernal wood

A violet by a mossy stone

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

The rainbow comes and goes,

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

When Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew … Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.