Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Nature
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
1862 Fathers and Sons (translated by Rosemary Edmonds), ch.9.
Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press