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Nature Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

38 Nature quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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Nature is called a key to happiness, a place to rest and feel calm. Tolstoy reminds us that forces like gravity and electricity work far beyond what we can see, and that true peace comes from humility, not from fighting. He also notes that art links our feelings with the natural world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

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

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.