Quotes about Nature
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
— Henry David Thoreau
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
— Henry David Thoreau
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture
— Paulo Coelho
No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
— John Milton
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.
— John Milton
Meadows trim, with daisies pied, shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
— John Milton
Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
— John Milton
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
— John Milton
Not that fair field of Enna, where proserpin gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain to seek her through the world.
— John Milton