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Nature Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Art is the child of Nature.
- The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have…
- The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
- As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,…
- Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.
- No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
- So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
- I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
- The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress…
- A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own…
- 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
- Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,…
- Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature…
- The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
- Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
- Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
- Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
- Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle