Pietro Metastasio Quotes

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.