Nature Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

— Leo Tolstoy

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

— Leo Tolstoy

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

— Leo Tolstoy

“the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth”

— Leo Tolstoy

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth…

— Leo Tolstoy

“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our…

— Leo Tolstoy

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes…

— Leo Tolstoy

“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What on earth is to become of me? What have I done?” I exclaimed as I paced the soft carpet. “Well,” I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The old oak, utterly transformed, draped in a tent of sappy dark green, basked faintly, undulating in the rays of the evening…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had…

— Leo Tolstoy

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

— Leo Tolstoy

“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work…

— Leo Tolstoy

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what…

— Leo Tolstoy

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called…

— Leo Tolstoy

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars?…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Он, как и все люди, живущие с природой и знающие нужду, был терпелив и мог спокойно ждать часы, дни даже, не испытывая…

— Leo Tolstoy