“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
More from William Wordsworth on Nature
“Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.”
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.”
“Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.”
“My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.”
“Nature is a volume of which God is the author.”
“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.”
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
Others on Nature
John Muir
17 quotes“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and c...”
Wendell Berry
5 quotes“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”
John Donne
4 quotes“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Charles Dickens
3 quotes“. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
John Keats
3 quotes“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Heraclitus
3 quotes“Nature loves to hide.”
Arthur C. Clarke
3 quotes“Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.”