Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

理解自然规律并不意味着我们对它们的作用免疫。

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

除非树在春天开花，否则在秋天你将徒劳地寻找树上的果实。

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

通常当你工作的时候，人们希望你工作。当你不工作的时候，他们不会那么需要你。这就是我们公司令人沮丧的本质。

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

虚荣心对自然是一种重要的帮助:对生命来说是完全和绝对必要的。这是大自然将你与地球联系在一起的方式之一。

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

美德是一种心智的习惯，与自然、节制和理性相一致。

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

观察鸟类已经成为我日常冥想的一部分，确认我与地球身体的联系。

Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.

水是人类生存的基本需要之一，水也可以破坏它。这就是大自然的力量。但大自然还有一个更强大的维度，那就是对人类的祝福;勇气、智慧、同情心和再次站起来的力量。

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

我们是天生的观察者，因此也是学习者。这是我们的永久状态。

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

如果我们能恰当地运用自然之神赋予我们的能力，我们就不软弱。先生，战斗不仅仅是针对强者，而是针对警惕的、积极的、勇敢的人。

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

我们是如此抽象的受害者，地球在燃烧，我们几乎不能唤醒自己漫步穿过房间，看看恒温器。

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

我们只有服从自然，才能驾驭自然。

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

当我们观察自然，特别是观察自然的秩序时，我们所观察的总是我们自己。

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

我们不能阻止自然灾害，但我们可以用知识武装自己:如果有足够的防灾准备，就不会有那么多人丧生。

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

我们在生活中通过重复，通过一次又一次地组合和重组一些元素来进行交流，就像大自然在用基本粒子构建一个世界时所做的那样。

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

我们按照母语所规定的路线来剖析自然。