Famous Quotes

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."

Edgar Allan Poe 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 Edgar Allan Poe

• "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

• "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

• "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

• "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."

• "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"