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  • Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Nature Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Nature Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Stars Quotes