James Russell Lowell Quotes About Nature
-
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
→ -
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
→ -
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
→ -
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
→ -
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
→ -
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
→
Related Authors
-
James F. Cooper Writer -
Nathaniel Parker Willis Author -
George Ripley Journalist -
James Thomas Fields Publisher -
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
Robert Lowell Poet -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Washington Irving Author -
Charles Eliot Norton Author -
Margaret Fuller Journalist -
-
William Dean Howells Author -
-
James Whitcomb Riley Writer -
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Amy Lowell Poet -
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist -
William C. Bryant Poet