Quotes about Nature
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday
— Winnie the Pooh
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.
— Marcel Pagnol
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
— John Milton
That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.
— John Milton
Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save.
— John Milton
And on their naked limbs the flowry roof/Show'r'd Rose, which the Morn repair'd.
— John Milton
No man who knows aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
— John Milton
Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
— John Milton
Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair
— John Milton
Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey.
— John Milton
To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.
— John Milton