Quotes from people who were inspired by nature?

Question

im writing an essay on the inspiration of nature for romantic period poets. and i need a quote for my ICD(interest creating device) so i was wonder if anyone knows any quotes or a site that has quotes by artists(painters) whom were inspired by nature or said something about nature.

if it helps, my sentence that will follow the quote will be:
Similarly, Romantic poets such as Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth use nature’s dynamic muse-like qualities to inspire their palette of words.

Answer 1

My favorite poem is by Robert Frost. It is called "Stopping by woods on a snowy day". I love it because it is full of descriptions about the woods and scenery and it also teaches a moral lesson. I suggest that everyone read it. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was much inspired by nature. Here is one of his:

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.

I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist:

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.

Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.

Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time.

For, like strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.

Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;

Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.

Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.

Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.

And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.

Answer 3

this is not so much inspiring as it is thought-provoking. I saw it at the back of "Skinny *****," and it's a quote from C. David Coates: "Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife by the millions to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative--and fatal--health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily, and once a year sends out cards praying for 'Peace on Earth.'"

Answer 4

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938


What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

Answer 5

by Henry David Thoreau"Waldens Woods"

Answer 6

Only after the last tree is chopped down and the last river polluted will we realize we can't eat money.