The birds, God’s poor who cannot wait.
Nature Quotes
Keep close to Nature’s heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, saying: “Here is a story-book The Father has written for thee.” – “Come, wander with me,” she said, “Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.”
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man, – A ripple […]
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Art does not lie in copying nature. Nature furnishes the material by means of which to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature. The Artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
