Quotes About Nature

And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

All things want to float.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

beauty' is related not to 'loveliness' but to a state in which reality plays a part.