Quotes About Nature

I wiped away the weeds and foam,I fetched my sea-born treasures home;But the poor, unsightly, noisome thingsHad left their beauty on the shore,With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

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

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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.

EnclosedIn a tumultuous privacy of storm.

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

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow.

A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.