Nature

“Si aviación viene de ave y el sustento del vuelo de las aves son las alas, el hombre nunca podrá —como tampoco lo podrían hacer los pájaros— conquistar el espacio si solo se sigue ateniendo a esas alas.”

“Man is not originally vicious.”

“Всех нас природа рождает богатыми.”

“Everything between Heaven and Earth is Essence (khi).”

“I leave my brush at Azuma and go on the journey to the Holy West to view the famous scenery there.”

“Wherever we see marks of contrivance, we are led for its cause to an intelligent author.”

“The answer to the question of who owns water is that no-one owns water.”

“Stay close to the bottom. Now understand bottom on about 10 levels there: the earth, the poor, your own shadow self.”

“I lay my harp on the curved table. Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings.”

“春潮带雨晚来急，野渡无人舟自横。”

“C'est sans raison que l'on mépriserait ces animaux, dont le grand Ouvrier de la nature a pris soin de relever la petitesse en les douant d'industrie et de force.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“My tomb shall be in a certain place where each breath of the north wind shall shower down roses upon it.”

“As if the Arched Hall, by its wondrous craftsmanship, Were hollowed in the cliff of a mountain side.”

““The one streams past so swiftly yet is never gone; the other forever waxes and wanes yet finally has never grown nor diminished.””

“Nature, herself a brilliant chemist and by far the best engineer of all time, invented life.”

“春潮帶雨晚來急，野渡無人舟自橫。”

“宮柳靑靑花亂飛, 滿城冠蓋媚春輝。”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is examining itself.”

“On a reconnu l'immense avantage de l'ordre monstrueux pour la connaissance approfondie de l'ordre habituel.”