Quotes about Nature
No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
— John Milton
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.
— John Milton
Meadows trim, with daisies pied, shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
— John Milton
Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
— John Milton
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
— John Milton
Not that fair field of Enna, where proserpin gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain to seek her through the world.
— John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
— John Milton
Her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.
— John Milton
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
— John Milton
Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,Strive here for mast'ry.
— John Milton