Ivan Turgenev Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Men, Atheism

  1862 Fathers and Sons (translated by Rosemary Edmonds), ch.9.

• Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Care, Wheels

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics

• Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Rights, Long

• However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Doors, Answers

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

• No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Song, Nature, Doors

• Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Health, Law

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press

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