Famous Quotes

"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer."

Victor Hugo 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 Victor Hugo

• "Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

• "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

• "Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."

• "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

• "I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"