William Wordsworth Quotes, Nature Quotes, Sound Quotes

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

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The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Nature Quotes , Moving Quotes

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Moon Quotes

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Writing Quotes

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Time Quotes , Nature Quotes

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Strong Quotes

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

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