I love not man the less, but Nature more.

About Lord Byron

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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and...

More quotations from Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Opinions are made to be changed—or how is truth to be got at?

truth change opinions

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

More quotations tagged with “nature”

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

—William Shakespeare

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness—ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things.

—William Shakespeare

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

—Tennessee Williams

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