Charles Dickens Quotes, Nature Quotes, Wall Quotes

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

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Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Encouraging 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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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Nature Quotes , War Quotes

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Nature 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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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

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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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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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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sound Quotes