Quotes about Nature
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
— Walt Whitman
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
— Washington Irving
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
— GK Chesterton
Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.
— William Wordsworth
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
— John Keats
Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson