Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

只有那些在自己的意识中日出日落，树叶发芽凋零的人，才可以说知道生命是什么。

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

只有在以本世纪为代表的那个时代，一个物种——人类——才获得了改变其世界本质的巨大力量。

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.

我们对真理和谬误的分析，或对判断的性质的分析，不大可能受到我们的希望和恐惧的影响。

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

我们的生活就是一个学徒，去认识这样一个真理:每绕一个圆圈，就会有另一个圆圈出现;自然界没有终点，但每一个终点都是一个起点，在每一个深渊之下都有一个更低的深渊在打开。

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

我们的本性几乎不允许我们拥有足够的东西而不拥有太多。

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

我们的本性是心灵。思想是我们的天性。

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

我们的理性可能会证明它会证明什么:我们的理性只是从自然中发出的一束微弱的光线。

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

直接从自然中绘画是困难的，因为事物不会一成不变;照相机有助于在你的头脑中记住这张照片。

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

绘画的本质是一种发光的语言。

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

绘画必须更全面而不拐弯抹角地处理生活和自然现象，才能再次变得伟大。

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

公园是自然的理想化，但实际上自然并不是理想的条件。

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

来自一个没有鲜花的星球上的人会认为，我们一定是高兴得发疯了，才会有这样的事情发生在我们身上。

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

城市里的人们可能会忘记土地长达一百年之久，但大自然母亲的记忆是长久的，她不会让他们无限期地忘记。

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

人们必须互相帮助;这是自然规律。

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

人们想听到人性的极端。他们想要的东西比他们自己的生活更大，更浪漫，不一定是他们自己的经历。