William Shakespeare Quotes About Wilderness

• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

• Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
  Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
  There's scarce a bush.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Wind, Ruffles

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.411

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