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I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865)In context
- Nature
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west⁠—sun there half an hour high⁠—I see you also face to face.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1856)In context
- Nature
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Religion
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)
- Nature
When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.
George Willborn 1941Discussion, Fox News Sunday, February 16, 2014
- Debate
- Politics
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 5e
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807)In context
- Nature
And ‘t is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring
- Nature
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
William Wordsworth1770–1850My Heart Leaps Up (The Rainbow), ll. 1-2 (wr. 1802; pub. 1807)In context
- Happiness
- Nature
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth1770–1850I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)In context
- Nature
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,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)In context
- Maturity
- Nature
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it has been of yore;⁠—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807)In context
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;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
William Wordsworth1770–1850The World Is Too Much with Us (1807)In context
- Money
- Nature
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Wordsworth1770–1850Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1807)In context
- Beauty
- Nature