"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature."

Nature, Future, Humannature

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Art, Imitation

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Effort, Living, Nothing

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Space

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Growth, Observation, Beauty

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Twilight, Observation, Wonder, Reflection

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Today, Power, Wisdom

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Life, Truth, Death, Wisdom

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Freedom, Poetry, Joy

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nature, Night, Dawn, Darkness

"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Bees

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"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."

Man

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."

Ambition

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

Man

"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

Age

"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Explore more quotes by Walter Savage Landor

"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

"Delay in justice is injustice."

"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."

"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws."

"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

"Great men always pay deference to greater."

"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"