T. S. Eliot Quotes

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.