Nature Quotes - Page 7

• To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Book

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Errors, Opinion

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 20), 1949.

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• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Reality, Feelings

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

  William C. Bryant

  Teaching, Sky, Lists

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Health, Garden

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Garden, Hands

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Flower, Philosophical, Butterfly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Perfect

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wrinkles, Purple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

  Richard Louv

  Parenting, Woods, Ritalin

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The voice of nature is always encouraging.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voice, Saddening

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.111, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Rain, Writing, Feelings

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Tree, Earth Day, Gold

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• How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Tree, Doe

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.334, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Colors are the smiles of nature.

  Leigh Hunt

  Smile, Color

  LEIGH HUNT (1864). “The Seer”, p.36

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• This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Simple, Hands

  In R. N. Linscott (ed.) 'Selected Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson' (1959)

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Quilts

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Death

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• The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

  Philip James Bailey

  Courses, Whole, Seems

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