Famous Quotes

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

Herman Melville on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Herman Melville

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Art is the objectification of feeling."

• "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."