Nature
Quotes
Nature encompasses the entirety of the physical world and its inherent processes, untouched and unshaped by deliberate human intervention. It's the foundation of life, providing sustenance, beauty, and inspiration, while also offering a crucial framework for understanding our place within the larger cosmos and fostering a deep connection to something far greater than ourselves.
# Nature & Life
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Live and think.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life is a comedy.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life is but thought.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“I've lived and loved.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life's little ironies.”
# Nature & Time
• Source: Wikiquote: "Morning" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 528-30.)
“Sacrament of morning.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Night" (S)
“Making night hideous.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Night" (L)
“Night hath a thousand eyes.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Night" (B)
“I am the Night, I am Batman.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Night" (I)
“Watchman, what of the night?”
# Nature & Astronomy
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stars" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 748-52.)
“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
• Statius, Thebais, XII. 521.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stars" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 748-52.)
“Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stars" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 748-52.)
“A grisly meteor on his face.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stars" (Quotes, M)
“The starry cope
Of heaven.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Stars" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 748-52.)
“All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad.”
# Nature & Days
• Titus. See Suetonius, Titus, VIII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 161-63.)
“Diem perdidi.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 161-63.)
“Clearer than the noonday.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes)
“Hide me from day's garish eye.”
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 104.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes)
“Expectada dies aderat.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 161-63.)
“The better day, the worse deed.”
# Nature & Themes
• Said to be the last words of Goethe
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“Mehr Licht!”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“The Light that Failed.”
• William Pitt's description of the Window Tax. Also suggested by Robert Lowe, Chancellor, as a motto for matchboxes, when the British Government introduced a match tax, 1871.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“Ex luce lucellum.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“A remnant of uneasy light.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, M)
“Dark with excessive bright.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Darkness" (Quotes)
“Dark as pitch.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nature" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 544-48.)
“Beldam Nature.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Live and think.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Shadows" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 699-700.)
“Chequer'd shadow.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life is a comedy.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dust" (Quotes)
“Dust claims dust.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sky" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 713-14.)
“Bolt from the blue.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sky" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 713-14.)
“Why
Is the sky?”
• On being asked his reasons for making an attempt on Mount Everest.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mountain" (Quotes:
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“Because it's there.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life is but thought.”
• Said to be the last words of Goethe
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“Mehr Licht!”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Morning" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 528-30.)
“Sacrament of morning.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Night" (S)
“Making night hideous.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“I've lived and loved.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Iron" (Quotes)
“Iron sharpeneth iron.”
• Titus. See Suetonius, Titus, VIII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Day" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 161-63.)
“Diem perdidi.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“Life's little ironies.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Light" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455-57.)
“The Light that Failed.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Quicksand" (Quotes)
“A quicksand of deceit.”
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
“I would not live alway.”
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