How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #1
But then, the sky! Blue, untainted by a single cloud (the Ancients had such barbarous tastes given that their poets could have been inspired by such stupid, sloppy, silly-lingering clumps of vapor). I love—and I'm certain that I'm not mistaken if I say we love—skies like this, sterile and flawless! On days like these, the whole world is blown from the same shatterproof, everlasting glass as the glass of the Green Wall and of all our structures. On days like these, you can see to the very blue depths of things, to their unknown surfaces, those marvelous expressions of mathematical equality— which exist in even the most usual and everyday objects. (2.2)
The State attempts to control nature so much that they don't even leave clouds in the sky. The goal is simplicity, and through simplicity equality. A perfect blue sky means that there are no clouds at all, clouds that provide shade to some people and not to others.
Quote #2
You see? Spring! She talks about Spring! Females! (2.6)
This is a very early citation of the natural world and natural cycles. Here, it's seen in a supremely negative way.
Quote #3
It occurred to me—it's true, I wasn't before … but now I … It seems I no longer live in our rational world, but in an ancient, delirious—a world of square roots of minus one. (14.9)
Nature is irrational. It doesn't obey rules. And yet, mathematics can't get rid of the same principles: it can never be completely rational. D-503 chooses to acknowledge this reality rather than deny it, a big step in his development as a character.