Nature Quotes by George MacDonald

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently…

— George MacDonald

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to…

— George MacDonald

“And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal.”

— George MacDonald

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it,…

— George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

— George MacDonald

“To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by…

— George MacDonald

Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The…

— George MacDonald

“The poetry of life, the inner side of nature, rises near the surface to meet the eyes of the man who makes.…

— George MacDonald

“For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those -- few…

— George MacDonald

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent…

— George MacDonald

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any…

— George MacDonald

“For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness,…

— George MacDonald

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase…

— George MacDonald

“As the love of him who is love transcends ours as the heavens are higher than the earth, so must he desire…

— George MacDonald

All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth…

— George MacDonald

“One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my…

— George MacDonald

“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul…

— George MacDonald

“I would remind my reader that Donal was a Celt, with a nature open to every fancy of love or awe --…

— George MacDonald

“Let me once more assert that Mr Malison was not a bad man. The misfortune was, that his notion of right fell…

— George MacDonald