Quotes About Nature

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

The waters wear the stones.

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.

'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!

Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea!

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.