3 Vladimir Nabokov Quotes on Nature

Vladimir Nabokov quotes on nature

3. To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

16. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane;

18. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.