Famous Quotes

"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing."

John Donne 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 John Donne

• "God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

• "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

• "Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."

• "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

• "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."