“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness.”
Henry David Thoreau
NatureFreedom
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.
“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
Henry David Thoreau
MorningWonder
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees.”
Henry David Thoreau
LifeNature
“The Universe is the externization of the soul.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
UniverseSoul
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureChange
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PerspectiveVision
“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”
Walt Whitman
JoyPeople
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Walt Whitman
FreedomSelf-Expression
“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.”
Walt Whitman
LifeRenewal
“I'll tell you how the Sun rose - a Ribbon at a time.”
Emily Dickinson
SunriseBeauty
“There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.”
Emily Dickinson
BooksImagination
“Beauty - be not caused - It Is.”
Emily Dickinson
BeautyMystery
“How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?”
William Blake
BirdsWonder
“Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.”
John Keats
BooksDiscovery
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.”
John Keats
AutumnNature
“The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion.”
William Wordsworth
NaturePassion
“One impulse from a vernal wood may teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the sages can.”
William Wordsworth
NatureLearning
“Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
OceanIrony
“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
BirdsJoy
“Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of Eternity.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
LifeEternity
“'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
Lord Byron
TruthMystery
“For men may come and men may go, but I go on for ever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
NatureTime
“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
NatureBeauty
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
NatureLakes
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.”
Edgar Allan Poe
ScienceTime