Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"That is not my constitution."
Heathcliff
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"The wind whistles keenly through the bent grass."
Heathcliff
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"Nature is the art of God."
Don Quixote
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"The glaciers will always return to us"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
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"The ice is impartial; it kills without malice"
Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
T
"I was struck by the various repulsive aspects of nature, which yet could be beautiful"
The Creature
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"I was born with instinctive tenderness and benignity"
The Creature
T
"The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me"
The Creature
T
"I feel sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they thrill through my whole frame."
The Creature
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"The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind."
Walton
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Everything is flowing and changing continually. Nothing is permanent, everything is connected."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The lowest animals are the ones that destroy their own species."
O'Brien
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"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"It is the whale's intrinsic nature to be wondrous."
Ishmael
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"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last."
Ishmael
I
"The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase."
Ishmael
T
"The night was dark and stormy"
The Narrator
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"I would as soon have turned a pythoness into a keep of my house."
Mr. Rochester
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"Whenever the weather was fair and settled, one did not desire that it should change"
The Narrator
T
"The great sea had them, and it will have them for ever and ever"
The Narrator
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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Ishmael
I
"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last."
Ishmael
I
"Not a single limb of him that is not a club; his body is all muscle."
Ishmael
I
"The sea rolls on; it rolls onward still, carrying my message down and down into the depths."
Ishmael
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"She was as wild as the moors themselves."
Nelly Dean
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"The moors are wild and beautiful, much like those who dwell upon them."
Nelly Dean
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"The wind howled about the old house like a living thing."
Pip
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"The great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last"
Ishmael
T
"The wood had a most respectable appearance"
The Narrator