Robert Burns: Quotes about nature

Robert Burns was Scottish poet and lyricist. Explore interesting quotes on nature.

Robert Burns: 228 quotes13 likes

“Nature's law,
That man was made to mourn.”

Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 4 (1786)

“Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!”

Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? (1764)

“The voice of Nature loudly cries,
And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies.”

New Year's Day, st. 3 (1790)

“Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han' she tried on man,
An' then she made the lasses, O.”

Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, st. 5 (1787)

“When Nature her great masterpiece designed,
And framed her last, best work, the human mind,
Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,
She formed of various stuff the various Man.”

To Robert Graham, st. 1 (1791)

“I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union.”

Robert Burns To a Mouse

To a Mouse, st. 2 (1785)

“Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.”

First Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 13 (1786)

“The social, friendly, honest man,
Whate'er he be,
'Tis he fulfills great Nature's plan,
And none but he!”

Second Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 15 (1786).

“To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!”

Bonny Lesley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)