Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Nature

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Nature

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