Alexander Pope Quotes on Nature (21 Quotes)


    Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

    Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

    A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

    Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

    That, Nature gives; and where the lesson taught
    Is but to please, can Pleasure seem a fault?


    Vast chain of being, which from God began,
    Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,
    Beast, bird, fish, insect!

    Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

    I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.

    Learn hence for Ancient Rules a just Esteem;
    To copy Nature is to copy Them.

    Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

    Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
    And let me languish into life.

    When souls each other draw,
    When love is liberty, and nature, law:
    All then is full, possessing, and possess'd,
    No craving void left aching in the breast:
    Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part,
    And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

    A Park is purchas'd, but the Fair he sees
    All bath'd in tears--"Oh odious, odious Trees!


    The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

    All nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.



    The gen'ral order, since the whole began,
    Is kept in nature, and is kept in man.

    Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves;
    Ev'n thou art cold--yet Eloisa loves.

    Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!


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