Quotes about Nature
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
— John Milton
Her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.
— John Milton
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
— John Milton
Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.
— John Milton
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
— John Milton
Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.
— John Milton
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.
— John Milton
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.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
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.
— John Milton
Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.
— John Newton