Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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.
Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.
Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.
After you get what you want you don't want it, if I gave you the moon, you'd grow tired of it soon.
You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.