Nature quotes

1. Quotes on Nature that may be compared with the theme
‘Nature mirrors human emotion’
‘There is a great deal of human nature in man.’
– Charles Kinsley (19th Century novelist)
‘Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.’
– Benjamin Disraeli (19th Century British prime minster)
‘A man is related to all nature.’
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th Century American poet, led the
Transcendentalist movement)
‘Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man.’
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (19th Century romanticist poet)
‘Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as
to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable
to man or not.’
– Galileo Galilei (16th/17th Century Italian physicist)
‘There is a tradition for the sequence of love poems. It runs from
Shakespeare's sonnets or John Donne's poems, through to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and
Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems.’
– Margaret Reynolds
‘Stand Rapture against some of the most strenuously
contemporary of her peers – John Stammers, say – and it
becomes even clearer that Duffy is operating on a different
plane, ahistorical, archetypal, where ‘moon’ and ‘rose’ and
‘kiss’ come clear of the abuses of tradition to be restored to the
poet’s lexicon, as the things of the world are restored to the
lover.’