John Dryden Nature Quotations

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

I am as free as nature first made man.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.