Quotes on Nature that may be compared with the theme ‘Nature mirrors human emotion’

‘There is a great deal of human nature in man.’ – Charles Kinsley (19th Century novelist) ‘Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.’ – Benjamin Disraeli (19th Century British prime minster) ‘A man is related to all nature.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson (19th Century American poet, led the Transcendentalist movement)

‘Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (19th Century romanticist poet) ‘Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.’ – Galileo Galilei (16th/17th Century Italian physicist) ‘There is a tradition for the sequence of love poems. It runs from Shakespeare's sonnets or John Donne's poems, through to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems.’ – Margaret Reynolds ‘Stand Rapture against some of the most strenuously contemporary of her peers – John Stammers, say – and it becomes even clearer that Duffy is operating on a different plane, ahistorical, archetypal, where ‘moon’ and ‘rose’ and ‘kiss’ come clear of the abuses of tradition to be restored to the poet’s lexicon, as the things of the world are restored to the lover.’