Nature Quotes by George Eliot

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

— George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

— George Eliot

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

— George Eliot

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

— George Eliot

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

— George Eliot

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

— George Eliot

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

— George Eliot

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see…

— George Eliot

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

— George Eliot

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

— George Eliot

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

— George Eliot

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

— George Eliot

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

— George Eliot

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and…

— George Eliot

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it…

— George Eliot

“It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are…

— George Eliot

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants…

— George Eliot

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished…

— George Eliot

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,…

— George Eliot

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should…

— George Eliot

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself,…

— George Eliot

“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what…

— George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there…

— George Eliot

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure…

— George Eliot

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The…

— George Eliot

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have…

— George Eliot

The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of…

— George Eliot

“It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment…

— George Eliot

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can…

— George Eliot

“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,…

— George Eliot

“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual…

— George Eliot

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and…

— George Eliot

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

— George Eliot

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has…

— George Eliot

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless…

— George Eliot

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

— George Eliot

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

— George Eliot

“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance…

— George Eliot