Famous quotes containing the words state, nature and/or preserve:
“The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me
The simple News that Nature told
With tender Majesty.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“Flowers laugh before thee upon their beds
And fragrance in thy footing treads;
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;
And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
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