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Nature Quotes

Stop for a second and smell the roses, think about what nature means to you. Think about how the natural world as you have known it has changed in your own lifetime. Think about the changes to come, and your children and grandchildren. Endeavor to pass that awareness and concern on to others.

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William Blake

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity … and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake (1757–1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Letter, 23 Aug. 1799 (published in The Letters of William Blake, 1956).

 

Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet. Letter, 10 June 1822, to author Isaac D’Israeli (published in Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 9, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand, 1979).

 

Walt Whitman

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman (1819–92), U.S. poet. Specimen Days and Collect, “New Themes Entered Upon” (1882).

 

James Thomson

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
James Thomson (1700–1748), Scottish poet. The Seasons, Preface. The poem’s novel attitude toward nature anticipated the Romantic movement.

 

Anne Frank

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank (1929–45), German Jewish refugee, diarist. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947; tr. 1952), entry for 23 Feb. 1944.

All the above quotes are courtesy of The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Columbia University Press (1993). Microsoft Bookshelf ‘95

 

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