Antiquity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

— Albert Einstein

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

— Edith Wharton

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Years ago, when she'd studied the constructions of stem, blade, stamen, ovule, she loved the infinite possibilities of the plant kingdom- but she had…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly…

— Anna Akhmatova

The morning rose, that untouched stands Armed with her briars, how sweet she smells! But plucked and strained through ruder hands, Her sweets no…

— Sir Robert Ayton

“Not a dandelion in sight here, the lawns are picked clean. I long for one, just one, rubbishy and insolently random and hard to…

— Margaret Atwood

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

— Robert Burns