Quotes about Nature

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

The star that bids the shepherd fold.

Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.

Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.

The love of God is like himself — equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves — unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.