Nature & World Sayings

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

The city has fallen: only the hills and rivers remain. In Spring the streets were green with grass and trees.

The country is broken, but mountains and rivers remain.

My thatched roof is torn by autumn winds—the village boys steal my thatch.

The stars lean perilously close to the earth tonight.

The river is so wide, even the birds can’t cross it.

The river's blue, the bird a perfect white, The mountain green with flowers about to blaze. I've watched the spring pass away again, When will I be able to return?

Resist your temptation to lie. By speaking of separation from God, Otherwise, We might have to medicate. You. In the ocean.

The sea is one of the most powerful and wonderful things I have ever seen and I wish to remain by the sea all the time.

I saw a tree that bore fruit that tasted like honey, and it was very delicious.

I saw a rhinoceros for the first time near the Indus River. It looked like a huge pig with a horn on its nose, and it was uglier than anything I had ever seen.

On the bank of the Nile opposite Old Cairo is the place known as The Garden, which is a pleasure park and promenade, containing many beautiful gardens, for the people of Cairo are given to pleasure and amusements. I witnessed a fete once in Cairo for…

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

To name the sky is to forget its endless blue.

The river flows unafraid to lose itself in the ocean's embrace.

He who carries little walks freely under the burdened sky.

The mountain stands firm, not through pride, but by embracing storms.

In the garden of truth, even the weeds have stories to tell.

A river forgets the banks but not the source where it began.