Nature Quotes by Hermann Hesse

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

— Hermann Hesse

“[N]ature could not care less what we think about it[.]”

— Hermann Hesse

“human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If”

— Hermann Hesse

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever…

— Hermann Hesse

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,…

— Hermann Hesse

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which…

— Hermann Hesse

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker…

— Hermann Hesse

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can…

— Hermann Hesse

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will…

— Hermann Hesse

“I became unhappy because I saw nothing but the usual tribulations, trade, progress, and improvements on the earth.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Over his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker,…

— Hermann Hesse

“You should let yourself be carried away, like the clouds in the sky. You shouldn’t resist. God exists in your destiny just…

— Hermann Hesse

“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to…

— Hermann Hesse

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for…

— Hermann Hesse

“Even as a child I had had at intervals a fondness for observing strange forms in nature, not so much examining them…

— Hermann Hesse

“But whereas we, in our conception, represented the will of nature to renew itself, to individualize and march forward, the others lived…

— Hermann Hesse

For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke,…

— Hermann Hesse

“...to you, differences are quite unimportant; to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my…

— Hermann Hesse

“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the…

— Hermann Hesse

“This is good too, very good,” he said, “listen to this: ‘A man should be proud of suffering. All suffering is a…

— Hermann Hesse

“Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of…

— Hermann Hesse

And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so…

— Hermann Hesse

“Nobody really knew anything. People lived; they went here and there about the earth and rode through forests; so much seemed to…

— Hermann Hesse

“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,…

— Hermann Hesse

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…

— Hermann Hesse

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom…

— Hermann Hesse