Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

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"I love all that is wild and free, untamed by the hand of man."
Lord Byron
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"I have always loved nature more than the works of man."
Lord Byron
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"The height of cultivation runs to meet the height of nature."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"We receive but what we give, and in our life alone does nature live."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Nature speaks in languages far older and wiser than human speech."
John Milton
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"Nature reveals to us the mind of God written in stone and leaf."
John Milton
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
John Keats
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"Even bees, the little Alchemists, extract sweets from the commonest flowers."
John Keats
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"I write this sitting by the window with the pleasant sensation of a breeze."
John Keats
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"How now, moon? Hath not the morning come?"
William Shakespeare
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"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, the earth and every common sight did seem appareled in celestial light"
William Shakespeare
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore."
Lord Byron
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"Nature is the art of God."
Dante Alighieri
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"Nature speaks to those who listen with their hearts."
Dante Alighieri
"Nature never wears the same expression twice, for her passion are infinite."
William Wordsworth
"One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more than all the sages can."
William Wordsworth
"The poetry of earth is never dead; it sleeps in the seeds and waits in the sun."
William Wordsworth
"There is a power in the mountains that calls to something deep within the soul of man."
William Wordsworth
"The universe speaks to those who listen; nature is the alphabet in which God has written truth."
William Wordsworth
"When that Aprille with his shoures soote hath perced to the root."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Nature teaches those who are willing to learn."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Colors are the smiles of nature."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Nature can afford to laugh at the mistakes which reappear in each generation."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Dwell in solemn silence of the sea."
William Shakespeare
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"All things are artificial; for nature is the art of God."
John Milton
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"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings."
John Milton