Jane Austen Quotes, Nature Quotes, Flower Quotes

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Attitude Quotes

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Nature Quotes , Passion Quotes

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sex Quotes

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sunset Quotes

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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

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

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Nature Quotes , Lessons Quotes

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Rain Quotes

But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Stars 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

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Dream Quotes , Nature Quotes

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Nature Quotes , Struggle Quotes

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Running Quotes , Nature Quotes

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Nature Quotes , Exercise Quotes

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Summer Quotes , Nature Quotes