Come in, dear wind, and be our guest
You too have neither home nor rest.
Nature Quotes
The page runs from Shakespeare and Milton through Longfellow, Wordsworth and Thomas Moore, so most of it is poetry from before 1900. Two of the best-sourced lines are in prose. Francis Bacon, in The Advancement of Learning (1605), uses the sun passing through pollutions and remaining as pure as before. Einstein, in an essay for Leo Baeck (1953), says joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Three entries are flagged misattributed: a couplet about old Hoghton and pale moonlight credited to William Hazlitt, a remark that kites rise against, not with, the wind, credited to Lewis Mumford, and “You can’t just let nature run wild,” credited to Walt Disney.
If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.
The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
The Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
The sun when setting makes the increasing shadows twice as large.
Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.