Quote of Gérard de Nerval - Every flower is a soul blossoming...

Biography - Gérard de Nerval:

French writer and poet.
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gérard de Nerval

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Translation

(French, German)

Chaque fleur est une âme à la nature éclose.

Gérard de Nerval

Jede Blume ist eine Seele, die sich der Natur öffnet.

Gérard de Nerval

Quotes about nature:

Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

nature

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion /

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon /

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires /

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Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo /

At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

soul

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

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Quotes for: flower

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet /

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen /

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you.

Paul Verlaine - Green /

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Gérard de Nerval also said...

There is only one vice of which no-one boasts - ingratitude.

Gérard de Nerval - Paradoxe et vérité /

Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.

Gérard de Nerval /

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything

Gérard de Nerval /

universe

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Gérard de Nerval /

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gérard de Nerval

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Gérard de Nerval - Aurélia ou le Rêve et la Vie /

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