Choices Quote by Rachel Carson

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

— Bram Stoker

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred…

— Alexander Smith

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation…

— George Eliot

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

— Joseph Addison

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd allow herself…

— Melina Marchetta

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling…

— William Shakespeare

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each…

— Arthur Helps

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

— Vera Brittain

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of…

— Edward Hopper

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

— John Milton