Quotes about Nature

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.