Nature

"What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh."

"Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop."

"Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please."

"If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue."

"For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss."

"Out of the book of Nature's learned breast."

"Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?"

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity: all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one."

"Nature seems to wear one universal grin."

"As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air."

"To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art."

"E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."

"What Nature has writ with her lusty wit Is worded so wisely and kindly That whoever has dipped in her manuscript Must up and follow her blindly. Now the summer prime is her blithest rhyme In the being and the seeming, And they that have heard the overword Know life's a dream worth dreaming."

"That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!"

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurrit."

"Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit."

"No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest."

"O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings."

"And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee. Come, wander with me, she said, Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God."

"The natural alone is permanent."

"So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know."

"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."

"Nature with folded hands seemed there, Kneeling at her evening prayer!"

"I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have."

"O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!"

"But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills."

"Beldam Nature."

"Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?"

"And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons."

"Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave."

"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out."

"And liquid lapse of murmuring streams."

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!"

"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."

"And not from Nature up to Nature's God, But down from Nature's God look Nature through."

"There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet."

"And we, with Nature's heart in tune, Concerted harmonies."

"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise."

"Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool Earth, my canopy the skies."

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; That chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart."

"See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace."

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

"Ut natura dedit, sic omnis recta figura."

"Naturæ sequitur semina quisque suæ."

"Natura abhorret vacuum."

"Modern readers find several of Aristotle’s views deeply repugnant. The two most obvious are his views on slavery and his views on the intellectual and political capacity of women. Unsurprisingly, these are connected. The relation of master to inferior—of the male head of household to wife and slaves—is a basic and natural human relationship."

"Der Schein soll nie die Wirklichkeit erreichen Und siegt Natur, so muss die Kunst entweichen."

"Some touch of Nature's genial glow."

"By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow."