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Nature Quotes by Robert Frost

40 Nature quotes by Robert Frost

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Robert Frost reflects on how nature’s colors appear briefly, like a gold leaf that fades fast. He notes that nature constantly hints at lessons, and that life’s rhythm mirrors the flow of rivers, sun, and seasons. He also reminds us that even in hardship, nature keeps moving forward.

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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Nature is always hinting at us.

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Nature's first green is gold.

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Love has earth to which she clings.

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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth…

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not…

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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and…

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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And…

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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King…

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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf…

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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!…

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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to…

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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a…

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Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.…

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down…

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“No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm. "How often already you've had…

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“Fragmentary Blue Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or…

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(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere…

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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come…

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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature…

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“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view…

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“Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought…

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“Tree At My Window Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never…

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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;…

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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a…

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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

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For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know…

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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