Mark Twain Quotes About Nature

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  There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.317, Univ of California Press

• Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Men, Chastity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

• One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Rainbow, Forget

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere”

• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Miracle

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

• Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Grace, Passing Away

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

• To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Turns, Seasons

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

• If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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