Friedrich Schelling Quote

We live in the midst of her [Nature] and are strangers. She speaks to us unceasingly and betrays not her secret. We are always influencing her and yet can do her no violence.


Translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, Nature: Aphorisms (p. 207)


We live in the midst of her [Nature] and are strangers. She speaks to us unceasingly and betrays not her secret. We are always influencing her and...

We live in the midst of her [Nature] and are strangers. She speaks to us unceasingly and betrays not her secret. We are always influencing her and...

We live in the midst of her [Nature] and are strangers. She speaks to us unceasingly and betrays not her secret. We are always influencing her and...

We live in the midst of her [Nature] and are strangers. She speaks to us unceasingly and betrays not her secret. We are always influencing her and...