10 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Nature

Fernando Pessoa quotes on nature

12. Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / is tears from Portugal

15. God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, / but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

17. Oh Portugal, today you are fog...

21. Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

45. To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.

84. I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

91. Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

110. My curiosity sister of larks.

127. What would happen to the world if we were human?

156. Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.