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Quotes about nature
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. (Beerbohm Max)
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. (Beerbohm Max)
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. (Beerbohm Max)
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (Beerbohm Max)
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? (Beerbohm Max)
"In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. (Beerbohm Max)
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (Beerbohm Max)
Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave? (Beerbohm Max)
Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. (Beerbohm Max)
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, / The moping owl does to the moon complain. (Beerbohm Max)
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!. (Beerbohm Max)
When chill November s surly blast make fields and forest bare. (Beerbohm Max)
Look abroad through Nature s range, Nature s mighty law is change. (Beerbohm Max)
For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. (Beerbohm Max)
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony. (Beerbohm Max)
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. (Beerbohm Max)
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. (Beerbohm Max)
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. (Beerbohm Max)
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. (Beerbohm Max)
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (Beerbohm Max)
Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher. (Beerbohm Max)
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. (Beerbohm Max)
I am at two with nature. (Beerbohm Max)
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. (Beerbohm Max)
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. (Beerbohm Max)
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