Nature and Elements

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things—when wilt thou drink this strange soul——When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me?

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may be a theatrical “encore.”

Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.