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.
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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.
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.
Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
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