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Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 1.
- Nature
Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Nature
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Music
- Nature
A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
- Holidays
Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. ‘Guess’ is too short a word for a professor.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language
William Cullen Bryant1794–1878Thanatopsis (1817)In context
- Nature
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
- Nature
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Caxtoniana (1862), Essay X. Hints on Mental Culture
- Reading
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial⁠—largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox⁠—in other words,⁠—all the things I love the most.
Luis Buñuel1900–1983Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
- Change
- Nature
Where you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Nature
- Thinking
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
Robert Burns1759–1796To a Mouse (1786)In context
- Animals
- Nature
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.
Robert Burns1759–1796My Heart’s in the Highlands (1790)In context
- Nature
- Patriotism
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more
Lord Byron1788–1824Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Canto the Fourth (2 of 2)In context
- Nature
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean⁠—roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin⁠—his control
Stops with the shore
Lord Byron1788–1824Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–1818), Canto the Fourth (2 of 2)In context
- Nature