Nature Quotes by Ovid

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are…

— Ovid

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

— Ovid

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

— Ovid

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

— Ovid

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who…

— Ovid

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

— Ovid

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the…

— Ovid

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

— Ovid

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

— Ovid

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

— Ovid

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

— Ovid

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

— Ovid

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

— Ovid

“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of…

— Ovid

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

— Ovid

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all…

— Ovid

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

— Ovid