Famous Quotes - Tags - Nature
- (O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
I see my own soul... More
- ...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
boiling, over the west past all... More
- A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,—
They treated nature as they would. More
- A feme may come, leaf-green,
Whose coming may give revel
Beyond revelries of... More
- A happy rural seat of various view:
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and... More
- A lock-jaw that bends a man’s head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his... More
- A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to... More
- A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more... More
- A sober mind will walk alone,
Apart from nature, if need be,
And only its own seasons... More
- A squirrel leaping from bough to bough, and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure,... More
- A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white... More
- A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and... More
- A wolf will walk a thousand miles to eat people: a dog half way to heaven will still eat dung. More
- Absurd, irreducible; nothing—not even a profound and secret delirium of nature—could explain... More
- After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me,... More
- After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy... More
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have... More
- All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; More
- All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket... More
- All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood; More
- All nature is a temple where the alive
Pillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;
Man... More
- All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not... More
- All nature seemed to be
In perfect harmony. More
- All nature wears one universal grin. More
- All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming,... More
- All that we did, all that we said or sang
Must come from contact with the soil, from... More
- all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
Of creatures going about their... More
- All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. More
- All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are... More
- All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. More
- All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke.... More
- All’s vast that vastness means. Nay, I affirm
Nature is whole in her least things... More
- Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and... More
- Among those few, out of the sun,
The woodspurge flowered, three cups in one.
From... More
- An abstract Greek absurdity has crazed the man,
A Trinity that is wholly masculine. Man,... More
- An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with... More
- And knew that nature could not more refine
What it had given in a looking-glass
And... More
- And shew that Nature wants an Art
To conquer one resolved Heart. More
- And the empty pages?
Should they ever be filled
Let it be with observed
Celestial... More
- And then I know of no better way
To close a road, abandon a farm,
Reduce the births of... More
- And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats... More
- And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder... More
- And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. More
- Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as... More
- Anything we saw
And thus fastened on
With an epithet,
We would see to yet
We... More
- Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the... More
- Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot... More
- Art compares to nature like wine to the grape. More
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man’s art... More
- Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same... More
- As I was leaving the Irishman’s roof after the rain, bending my steps again to the pond, my... More
- As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; More
- As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other... More
- As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is... More
- As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting... More
- At length I entered within the skirts of the cloud which seemed forever drifting over the summit,... More
- At length, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord,... More
- At my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes
Of burning cressets, and at... More
- Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods
with smoky wings, entangles them. More
- beasts
Got the buddha-nature
All but
Coyote. More
- Beautiful, wide-spread,
fire upon leaf,
what meadow yields
so fragrant a leaf
as... More
- Burly, dozing humble-bee,
Where thou art is clime for me. More
- But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I... More
- But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water- lily.... It is the emblem of... More
- But Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough... More
- But O, young beauty of the woods,
Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
Gather the... More
- But to each thought and thing allied,
Is perfect Nature’s every part,
Rooted in the... More
- But who can paint
Like Nature? Can imagination boast
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? More
- But, though light-headed man forget,
Remembering Matter pays her debt:
Still, through her... More
- By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that... More
- By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. More
- By the artist’s seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature.... More
- By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of... More
- Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have... More
- Can you see it? Isn’t it beautiful? I told you. More
- Careless of books, yet having felt the power
Of Nature, by the gentle agency
Of natural... More
- Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a... More
- Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. More
- Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun... More
- Come, live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
Of peace and... More
- Commerce is really as interesting as nature. More
- Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now... More
- Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first... More
- Crouching down where nothing stirs
In the silence of the furze,
Crouching down again to... More
- Culture means control over nature. More
- Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. More
- Dearest Nature, strong and kind,
Whispered, “Darling, never mind!
Tomorrow they will... More
- Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
Is... More
- Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist, in which the better the artist understands... More
- Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature,... More
- each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight More
- Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; More
- Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free. It is hard for me to believe that I shall... More
- Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be... More
- Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may... More
- Everything that comes out of the hands of the Creator of all things is good, everything... More
- Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or... More
- Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. More
- Far over the ice, between the hemlock woods and snow-clad hills, stands the pickerel-fisher....... More
- Fate wings with every wish th’ afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art, More
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