Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Autumn, Feelings

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

• I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Trying, Nonsense

  "Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, a biography, by Julian Hawthorne".

• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Friendship, Nature, Intimate

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Climbing, Mountain

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “Tales of the White Mountains”, p.65, Electric Book Company

• Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Children, Roots

  1850 The Scarlet Letter,'The Custom-House'.

• Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Heart, Night

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr

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