- Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art”. - Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood, Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry, And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody, On all four-footed things. Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet”. - Quotes by Roy Campbell
“Giraffe! – a People who live between the earth and skies, Each in his lone religious steeple, Keeping a lighthouse with hiseyes”.
- Quotes by Bryon Lord George Gordon
“Near this sport, Are deposited the remains of one, Who possessed beauty without vanity, Strength without insolence, Courage without ferocity, And all the virtues of man without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery, If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the memory of, Boatswain, a dog. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal, From all I may be, or have been before, The mingle with the Universe, and I feel , What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal”.
Tags: Bryon Lord George Gordon, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roy Campbell, The Natural World
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