216 Metaphors for nature

But to the author of the Lyrical Ballads, nature is a kind of home; and he may be said to take a personal interest in the universe.

He is no longer the lord of Nature, animal and vegetable,but Nature is the lord of him;

Nature and Aristotle would be my aim.

Only running water is pure, and stagnant nature of any sort is dangerousa breeding-place for disease.

Nature is pure Past, foregone freedom; and therefore, throughout, the soil of history.

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Nature is the only true priestess of joy; she alone knows how to tie the nuptial knot, not with empty words that bring no blessing, but with fresh blossoms and living fruits from the fullness of her power.

Clearly to settle that these must have been designed goes far towards proving that other organs and other seemingly less explicit adaptations in Nature must also have been designed, and clinches our belief, from manifold considerations, that all Nature is a preconcerted arrangement, a manifested design.

Nature as mother must become spirit to account for the soul of her son.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being, and to be loved or hated accordingly: they stand with me upon their own stock, as much as men and women do.

Besides;persons die, not natures: a nature is only a collection of properties: if Christ was one person, all Christ died.

If nature be bullion that can be melted and thus purified by the conjoint action of heat and elective attraction, I pray Mr. Noble to tell me to what name or 'genus' he refers the dross?

Nature becomes the home, the body of God.

The unmoved therefore is at the same time one and many, and is at the same time united and separated, and a nature of this kind is denominated intellect.

His nature is his excuse still, and other men's tyrant; for he must speak his mind, and that is his worst, and craves your pardon most injuriously for not pardoning you.

Nature was the watchword of Malherbe and of Boileau; and it was equally the watchword of Victor Hugo.

Human nature is a very provoking compound.

Such natures are not seldom victims of the power they would propitiate.

Sanpeur's well-rounded nature is triune, And flesh and sense as much a part of him As his clear brain and spirit consecrate.

For thee the lion loathes the taste of blood, And, roaring, hunts his female through the wood: For thee the bulls rebellow through the groves, 140 And tempt the stream, and snuff their absent loves. 'Tis thine, whate'er is pleasant, good, or fair: All nature is thy province, life thy care: Thou madest the world, and dost the world repair.

He replied, "On the first general head, WHETHER NATURE BE DERIVED FROM LIFE, OR LIFE FROM NATURE;" and on this question he said, that he could confirm either side, and cause it to be true; but as something lay concealed within which excited his fears, therefore he durst only confirm this side, that nature is of life, that is, from life, but not that life is of nature, that is, from it.

A softening influence of some kind had worked upon that haughty spirit, and it seemed as if her whole nature was changedor it might be, Mary thought, that this softer side of her character had always been turned to Lesbia, while to Mary herself it was altogether new.

It is even more certain that nature is the expression of a definite order, with which nothing interferes.

They have felt with Wordsworth: "The human nature unto which I felt That I belonged, and reverenced with love, Was not a punctual presence, but a spirit Diffused through time and space, with aid derived Of evidence from monuments, erect, Prostrate, or leaning towards their common rest In earth, the widely-scattered wreck sublime Of vanished nations.

He takes the most trite, the most gross and obvious and revolting part of nature, for the subject of his elaborate descriptions; but it is Nature still, and Nature is a great and mighty Goddess!

216 Metaphors for  nature