Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“caprice and irresponsibility… . Those two words sum you up; your whole nature’s contained in those two words.” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“And yet can it be that I was fit for nothing, that for me there was, as it were, no work on… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it.… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Everything on earth -- both the good things and the bad things -- is not given to a man according to his… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“a dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
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… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I think; here I lie under a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul… Usually it takes possession of someone without his… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
