La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers." - Meaning and context.">
Nature is a temple where living columns
Let slip from time to time uncertain words;
Man finds his way through forests of symbols
Which regard him with familiar gazes.
 • "Correspondances" [Correspondences] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondances
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La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
" in the context of "Nature is a temple where living columns
Let slip from time to time uncertain words;
Man finds his way through forests of symbols
Which regard him with familiar gazes.
 • "Correspondances" [Correspondences] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondances" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Charles Baudelaire" (Quotes, Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Charles Baudelaire

About Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, critic and translator.