Saint Bernard Quotes

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Study nature, not books.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.

May books and nature be their early joy!

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.