Ivan Turgenev - Nature Quotes

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

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

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

However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

Ivan Turgenev

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

Ivan Turgenev

Nature is no temple, but a workshop, and man is the worker therein.

Ivan Turgenev