Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

任何让我们放慢脚步、迫使我们保持耐心的事情，任何让我们重新回到大自然的慢循环中的事情，都是有帮助的。园艺是优雅的工具。

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

除了在他第一次呼吸之前的九个月，没有人能像树一样管理好自己的事务。

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

外在的本质只是内在的本质。

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

尤其是家庭，往往是你认为理所当然的。所有这些重要的事情，他们似乎都没有被注意到——这样做几乎成了第二天性。

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

不要害怕，我们是狮子的本性，不能堕落到消灭老鼠和这种小动物的地步。

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

对制造新型瘟疫的恐惧，对改变人类进化的恐惧，对不可逆转地改变环境的恐惧，这些只是猖獗的担忧中的一部分。

Fellini belongs to nature.

费里尼属于自然。

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

花是上帝创造的最甜美的东西，却忘了把灵魂放进花里。

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

花是没有希望的。因为希望是明天，花儿没有明天。

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

对于德彪西这个音乐家，对于这个男人，我有很深的敬佩之情，但从本质上来说，我和他是不同的。我个人认为，我一直遵循的方向与德彪西的象征主义背道而驰。

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

对于印象派画家来说，从自然中绘画并不是为了描绘主题，而是为了实现感觉。

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

因为每一个曾经在那里生活过的人，最后都来了一个他永远见不到的春天。愿荣耀在你们的泉源里。

For greed, all nature is too little.

对于贪婪来说，所有的自然都是渺小的。

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

因为在事物的本质中，如果我们正确地考虑，每一棵绿树都远比它是由黄金和白银做成的更辉煌。