Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Interpretation
Living in harmony with nature leads to a vibrant and beautiful life.
This quote suggests that embracing the natural world and respecting its laws contributes to a life filled with vitality and beauty. Leonardo Da Vinci implies that nature provides us with gifts that enhance our existence, but only if we align our lifestyles with its fundamental principles.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, this quote can inspire people to appreciate nature.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.
Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
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