Quotes about Nature

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what your thoughts dwell upon.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.