Robert Seymour Bridges: Quotes about nature

Robert Seymour Bridges was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on nature.
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“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry

“The name of happiness is but a wider term
for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,
attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd
to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature
spiritual is by definition unnatural.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 533-537.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

“Seeking unceasingly for the First Cause of All,
in question for what special purpose he was made,
Man, in the unsearchable darkness, knoweth one thing:
that as he is, so was he made; and if the Essence
and characteristic faculty of humanity
is our conscient Reason and our desire of knowledge,
that was Nature's Purpose in the making of man.”

Robert Seymour Bridges

The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee
any better melody in the April woods at dawn
than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake
o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance
be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”

Robert Seymour Bridges

Book I, lines 83-87.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)