Quotes About Time

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Introspection is always retrospection

What nature creates has eternity in it.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

There is no nature in an instant.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.