Nature

“সাঁতার কাটতে কাটতে চোখে পড়ল একটা কচ্ছপ পাশ দিয়ে ভেসে যাচ্ছে। মনে হয়েছিল ওটার পিঠে চেপে চলে যাই।”

“The power of man over animal life, in producing whatever varieties of form he pleases, is enormously great.”

“O ser humano é por natureza um ser criativo.”

“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”

“天之大宝，只此一丸红日；人之大宝，只此一息真阳。”

“I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it.”

“Si aviación viene de ave y el sustento del vuelo de las aves son las alas, el hombre nunca podrá —como tampoco lo podrían hacer los pájaros— conquistar el espacio si solo se sigue ateniendo a esas alas.”

“Man is not originally vicious.”

“Всех нас природа рождает богатыми.”

“Everything between Heaven and Earth is Essence (khi).”

“I leave my brush at Azuma and go on the journey to the Holy West to view the famous scenery there.”

“Wherever we see marks of contrivance, we are led for its cause to an intelligent author.”

“Stay close to the bottom. Now understand bottom on about 10 levels there: the earth, the poor, your own shadow self.”

“I lay my harp on the curved table. Sitting there idly, filled only with emotions. Why should I trouble to play? A breeze will come and sweep the strings.”

“春潮带雨晚来急，野渡无人舟自横。”

“C'est sans raison que l'on mépriserait ces animaux, dont le grand Ouvrier de la nature a pris soin de relever la petitesse en les douant d'industrie et de force.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“My tomb shall be in a certain place where each breath of the north wind shall shower down roses upon it.”