“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”
Hans Christian Andersen
LifeFaith
Amazing Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AMAZING
Amazing Quotes
Read 200 amazing quotes about wonder, the universe, nature and the miracles of everyday life from Shakespeare, Newton, Whitman, Emerson and more.
“Nature is loved by what is best in us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureLove
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureChildlike Wonder
“There is one mind common to all individual men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HumanityUnity
“We can never have enough of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
NatureJoy
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
Henry David Thoreau
TimePerspective
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
Henry David Thoreau
NaturePatience
“For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Walt Whitman
UnityUniverse
“To me the sea is a continual miracle.”
Walt Whitman
OceanMiracles
“Nature is a Haunted House - but Art - a House that tries to be Haunted.”
Emily Dickinson
NatureArt
“I never saw a Moor - I never saw the Sea - yet know I how the Heather looks and what a Billow be.”
Emily Dickinson
ImaginationFaith
“The Eye altering alters all.”
William Blake
PerspectivePerception
“One thought fills immensity.”
William Blake
MindInfinite
“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
John Keats
HumanityBeauty
“Our meddling intellect mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: we murder to dissect.”
William Wordsworth
NatureWisdom
“While with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
William Wordsworth
HarmonyInsight
“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
DreamsImagination
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PoetryPower
“The everlasting universe of things flows through the mind.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
MindUniverse
“The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, and storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong.”
Lord Byron
StormNight
“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
FutureVision
“What would the world be, once bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
NatureWildness
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
NatureRenewal
“The sea hath its pearls, the heaven hath its stars; but my heart, my heart, my heart hath its love.”
Heinrich Heine
LoveStars
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe
DreamsImagination