Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev. Trip to Polesie (№ 464457)

I understood the life of nature, I understood its mysterious meaning. Quiet and slow animation, unhurriedness and restraint of sensations and forces, the balance of health in each individual being - this is its very foundation, its unchanging law, this is what it stands on and rests on. Everything that comes out from under this level - whether up or down, it doesn’t matter - is thrown out by it as worthless.