From William Shakespeare: “At Christmas I no more desire a roseThan wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;But like of each thing that in season grows.”
Tag Archives: nature
Quote of the day 04/21/25
From William Wordsworth: One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.
Quote of the day 04/18/25
From William Wordsworth: Sweet is the lore which nature brings;Our meddling intellectMisshapes the beauteous forms of things—We murder to dissect.
Quote of the day 04/16/25
From William Wordsworth: “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Quote of the day 04/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Flow like the river, be firm as the rocks, pliant as the willow, eternal as the sky, transitory as the dew-drops, for man is all these, and more.”
Quote of the day 04/08/25
From John Milton: “Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine.”
Quote of the day 04/04/25
From William Wordsworth: “Let nature be your teacher.”
Quote of the day 03/30/25
From Basho: “Ah, hanging bridge! Ivy-ropes Entwine existence!”
Quote of the day 03/29/25
From Wordsworth: “To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran,”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
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