Nature
‹ 8 · Outline
9.Natural scenery and climate
9a.Rural, garden and pastoral scenery
See also: Beauty 4a · Art 7d
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 69Lush description of Calypso's cave, woods, vine, fountains and meadows.read · scan
- p. 80Shelter of twined olive bushes and fallen leaves protects him from wind, sun and rain.read · scan
- p. 92The garden's fruit never fails through the year, ripened by the West Wind.read · scan
- p. 92–94The vineyard and garden with fountains are described as splendid gifts of the gods.read · scan
- p. 176–177The Ithacan harbour and the cave of the Naiads are described, with a gate for men and a gate for immortals.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 245–246Israel is figured as a vine planted, spreading over the land, then ravaged by boar and wild beasts.read · scan
Buddhist WritingsVol. 45
- p. 608–609Lumbini Grove is a mass of flowers, bees and birds, likened to a paradise garden.read · scan
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old AgeVol. 9
- p. 62–64Cicero delights in the earth's productiveness and growth of seed, grain and vine, which age does not hinder.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 77A sheltered harbor with groves and grotto is described.read · scan
- p. 239Descriptions of moonlit sea, dawn and the Tiber's wooded banks with singing birds.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 221Pliny describes his Laurentine villa's setting, sea view, woods, meadows and flocks, explaining why he loves it.read · scan
- p. 221Rooms are arranged to exploit sun, winds and views of the sea.read · scan
- p. 221Describes the garden, box, vines, fig and mulberry trees, and how the portico shelters from winds and shade through the seasons.read · scan
- p. 221Sea, woods and sun views shape the pleasure of the summerhouse.read · scan
- p. 221Praises the coast's pure springs, woods, villas, sea and milk-rich pastures, justifying his love of the retreat.read · scan
- p. 266Describes Tuscan landscape as an amphitheatre created by nature: plain, mountains, meadows, river, vineyards.read · scan
- p. 317–318Describes the spring of the Clitumnus, its clear basin, strong current and wooded hill.read · scan
- p. 319Describes the river's banks of ash and poplar reflected in cold white water, and its pleasant navigation.read · scan
- p. 327–329Describes the perfectly circular Lake Vadimon, its sulphurous medicinal waters and floating islands, as a natural wonder.read · scan
- p. 329Describes movements of the floating islands, the sheep carried unawares and the lake's underground river, out of pleasure in contemplating nature's works.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 210–211Lavish description of the garden's fruits, flowers, birds and river in spring.read · scan
- p. 243The island is described with fruit trees, flowers, birds and pure rivers.read · scan
- p. 275The island is likened to the gardens of Paradise, with fruit, rivers and singing birds.read · scan
- p. 347–348Gardens with brooks, flowers and fountains, a lake and a lofty hill are described.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 140–144The poets emerge from the cave to see the stars and the fair world.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 170–173Nature lavishes hues and fragrance in the recess of the mountain.read · scan
- p. 258The terrestrial Paradise is described: fresh forest, gentle wind, singing birds, clear stream and flowers in prodigal variety.read · scan
- p. 258–260Mountain height shields Eden from earthly vapours and elemental storms; the plants' virtue spreads through the air.read · scan
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake RevivedVol. 33
- p. 131Describes the fruitful soil, fish-filled bay and rapid regrowth of the paths cleared a year earlier at Port Pheasant.read · scan
- p. 170–171Cool, pleasant woods, high trees and a hill between two seas are described.read · scan
Nicholas Breton, Phillida and CoridonVol. 40
- p. 196Pastoral May morning setting by the wood-side.read · scan
Miguel de Cervantes, The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part IVol. 14
- p. 215A pleasing setting of mountain, river, meadow and flowers is chosen for his penance.read · scan
- p. 492–493Pleasant natural scenery of forest, birds and stream.read · scan
Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandVol. 33
- p. 279The wild garden shows nature without art, abundant in roses and raspberries.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of GuianaVol. 33
- p. 342The banks yield fruits, flowers and colourful birds enough for volumes of Herbals, both pleasing and sustaining the company.read · scan
- p. 356Raleigh praises the beauty of the country: hills, winding river, green plains, deer, singing birds and cranes.read · scan
- p. 367–368Describes beautiful valley plains, abundant deer, fish and fowl, lakes and rivers, as fair as any English park.read · scan
Edmund Spenser, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 229–230Calm day, river Thames, meadow flowers, nymphs and swans describe a beautiful natural scene.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 111–112Gardening is the purest of human pleasures and greater perfection than building; lists plants for each month for perpetual spring.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethVol. 46
- p. 334–335Duncan and Banquo praise the castle's sweet air, the martlet's nest confirming its delicate breath of heaven.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 443–446Iris describes Ceres' fields, meadows and groves in pastoral detail.read · scan
Thomas Dekker, Country Glee; Cold's the Wind; O Sweet ContentVol. 40
- p. 317–319Haymakers and reapers celebrate summer; harvest and the hunt in the countryside.read · scan
William Drummond, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 330Dawn scene with flowers, silent winds and vanishing stars sets the pastoral mood.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 30Rural scenery of dawn, larks, sun, fields, flocks and brooks.read · scan
- p. 34Twilight groves, morning showers and hallowed woods as scene of contemplation.read · scan
- p. 42Genius tends the wood's plants, guarding them from blight and storm.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 155Paradise's enclosure of trees and fruit described as a wooded natural theatre.read · scan
- p. 155Paradise's air, scents and landscape are lavishly described, with fragrant gales likened to sea breezes off Araby.read · scan
- p. 165Evening scenery described with beasts, birds, nightingale, stars and moon.read · scan
- p. 227Earth brings forth grass, herbs, vines and trees in lush description, seeming a seat for gods.read · scan
- p. 261The garden's flowers and walks are compared to famed classical gardens.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 371Christ reflects that nature needs food but God can satisfy need otherwise; pleasant grove sceneread · scan
Abraham Cowley, Of AgricultureVol. 27
- p. 63Country life among the noble scenes of nature and divine bounty versus the malice of courts and cities.read · scan
- p. 65–66Muses love their native place; the country is the proper ground for verse.read · scan
Andrew Marvell, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 370–372Flowers likened to a military parade and garrisons; a garden idyll and a nymph at play with roses.read · scan
- p. 376–377Abundance of fruits, eternal spring and solitude in the garden set against busy human society.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 113–114Pleasant river, green trees, fruit and lily meadows refresh the weary pilgrims.read · scan
- p. 121–122Mountains with gardens, orchards, vineyards and fountains refresh them.read · scan
- p. 241–242Green meadows and lilies of the valley are delightful to the eye.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 328–329Garden and work-house pastimes let idle people converse with nature and art.read · scan
- p. 342–343Country life preferred: there we see God's works; the country is the philosopher's garden and library.read · scan
- p. 343Country is a retreat from noise offering subjects for reflection; knowing it is man's oldest business.read · scan
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousVol. 37
- p. 189Philonous praises the beauties of a morning garden, whose natural charms inspire the soul and dispose it to meditation.read · scan
- p. 230Rapturous description of fields, woods, rivers, oceans and mountains and their pleasing variety and use.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 304–305Natural order and natural inclinations of man favor cultivation of land; human institutions thwart it; beauty and pleasure of country life attract everyone.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 509Village scenery of brook, green and hawthorn, now desolate and overgrown.read · scan
- p. 509Rural sounds of the village and its animals now silenced.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 343–344The majestic Rhine uplifts his spirit and serves as natural defense.read · scan
- p. 356–358Description of the garden, vineyard and harvest festival celebrating the fruitful land.read · scan
- p. 371Village scene with ancient lindens, a spring and common depicted as a pleasant natural gathering place.read · scan
- p. 396–397Moonlight and shadows described under the pear-tree.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 67–68Nature's hills, woods and vales are free alike to all.read · scan
- p. 94–96A fair summer Sunday morning, with rising sun, hares and larks.read · scan
- p. 117–118Describes the burn playing over linn and dimpling in the pool under moonlight.read · scan
- p. 173–175The mantle depicts Ayrshire's rivers, mountains, billows and woods as a well-known landscape.read · scan
- p. 217–220Closing song opens on dewy fields, birdsong and greenwoodread · scan
- p. 278–280The river Bruar personified asks for trees to shade its banks, celebrating natural beauty of streams, birds and woods.read · scan
- p. 341–343The Nith's vales, hawthorns and dales praised as sweeter than the Thames.read · scan
- p. 411–413River genius laments the stripped woods and lost trees along the banksread · scan
- p. 441–443Burns and birds, brooks, birch and hawthorn make the spinner's cottage a scene of natural peace and delight.read · scan
- p. 534–536Humble glen, broom bowers and wild flowers of Scotland preferred to foreign groves of myrtle.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 379–380Opening scene presents Alpine lake, meadows, glaciers and herdsmen's seasonal songs, evoking natural scenery and pastoral life.read · scan
Samuel Rogers, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 582–583Brook, bees, swallow and flowers form the rural setting of the wished-for life.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 620–628The narrator's tender reverence for Yarrow's scenery, with the wooded banks, river and hills of the Scottish borders, as an imagined place.read · scan
- p. 628–630Yarrow's scenery, its lake, hills, groves and cultivated nature, found meekly lovely and equal to the imagined one.read · scan
- p. 655–656Poor Susan longs for green pastures and cottage set against city streets.read · scan
- p. 672–674Evening and morning scenes of sea and city render nature calm, majestic and beautiful.read · scan
James Hogg, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 766–768Love is called nature's dearest joy; the lark's song and moorland landscape celebrated.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 7Describes the natural scenery of Lake Como, its mountains, river, torrents and shores, as the setting of the story.read · scan
- p. 8Picturesque description of lanes, lake, river and mountain prospects around Lecco.read · scan
- p. 133Moonlit lake, still air and gentle waves described as the travellers cross by night.read · scan
George Gordon, Lord Byron, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 796–798Rhine landscape of crags, vineyards and blossoming hills described as a paradise.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 837–838Sunrise over the Euganean hills, Lombardy and Venice in vivid natural imagery.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter ScottVol. 25
- p. 432Walk over Scott's upland territories, ravines and glens, with talk of spring trees and plantings.read · scan
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a UniversityVol. 28
- p. 46–47Praises pleasant natural scenery of meadows, groves, streams and pure air as fitting surroundings for study.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, NatureVol. 5
- p. 226–227Beauty breaks in everywhere; every landscape is beautiful, and differences lie in the beholders; loved as the city of God.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 221–222Glorious summer countryside of cornfields, meadows, forests and lakes.read · scan
- p. 239–240Sea garden and the longed-for upper world's fragrant flowers, green trees and singing birds shown as natural wonders.read · scan
- p. 267–268The forest, springs and mirror-clear lake are described in loving detail.read · scan
- p. 287–288Lush fragrant scenery of wild figs, vines, grass and flowers welcomes the travelers.read · scan
- p. 297–298Country garden, sun, grass and birdsong depicted as a source of natural gladness.read · scan
- p. 359The dense, beautiful forest with flowers, spring and nightingale is described.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 37–38Mill acquired first taste for natural scenery as fondness for a view.read · scan
- p. 54His strong taste for country life, rural walks and travel is only partly satisfied by confinement to London.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1300Describes the fruitful valley, meadows, dikes and seasons of Grand-Pre as a natural setting of peace and plenty.read · scan
- p. 1304Twilight, evening star and rising moon frame a scene of rustic stillness.read · scan
- p. 1322Lakes of the Atchafalaya with water-lilies, lotus, magnolia; Teche country called the Eden of Louisiana.read · scan
- p. 1323–1324Evening landscape glows like a magician's wand touched it; the mocking-bird's song fills the woods.read · scan
- p. 1324–1325Detailed scenery of the Louisiana river, oak groves, gardens and limitless prairie at sunset, with herds and herdsman at home in it.read · scan
- p. 1326–1328Moonlit night, flowers giving off odors like prayers, fire-flies and stars over the prairie.read · scan
- p. 1330Moonlit Ozark night, brook and swaying branches provide setting.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 21Darwin describes volcanic island scenery and the luxuriant Brazilian forest, with a naturalist's delight in tropical nature.read · scan
- p. 28Descriptions of forest, bay, and desolate moonlit lagoons.read · scan
- p. 29Beauty of birds, plants, orchids and lagoons along the route.read · scan
- p. 32–33Describes tropical forest, tree ferns and forest vapour, and the vast uncultivated land left in a state of nature.read · scan
- p. 34Describes the beauty of the tropical forest, palms, creepers and ferns, and the wonder and devotion such scenes inspire.read · scan
- p. 35Enjoys the magnificent fertile country teeming with life, more attractive to the naturalist than England.read · scan
- p. 36–37Praises the scenery near Botofogo, rounded rock masses rising from luxuriant vegetation.read · scan
- p. 39–40Tropical vegetation in the Botanic Garden; houses surrounded by plants both beautiful and useful to man.read · scan
- p. 40–41Describes tropical haze, forest views, and scenery that surpass anything in Europe.read · scan
- p. 48Describes the plains around Maldonado, their uninteresting scenery yet charm of open turf, flowers and birds.read · scan
- p. 86–87Describes mud-banks, refraction illusions and the monotonous beauty of the harbour landscape.read · scan
- p. 131–132Description of river and level plain scenery and the actual inequality of the plain.read · scan
- p. 147Judges the Plata a poor affair with neither grandeur nor beauty, and describes the level grassy country near Monte Video.read · scan
- p. 222–223Describes Beagle Channel scenery and a quiet, picturesque cove.read · scan
- p. 257Describes Valparaiso's setting, the clear climate, the Andes and Aconcagua with delicate colours at sunset.read · scan
- p. 259Describes pastoral Chilean landscape, the irrigated Quillota valley and fog-filled basins resembling ancient bays.read · scan
- p. 300–301Admiring view of forest, volcanoes and Cordillera; the island's charm despite winter rain.read · scan
- p. 380–381Contrasts the bushy lowlands with the damp, green uplands and a picturesque crater salt-lake on James Island.read · scan
- p. 407Describes Tahiti's mountains, coral reef, lagoon and luxuriant tropical vegetation, with admiration for the beauty of the groves.read · scan
- p. 414Abundant wild food plants and waterfalls; Darwin admires the scene against uncultivated temperate regions.read · scan
- p. 421Describes the hilly, fern-covered landscape of the Bay of Islands and its quiet aspect.read · scan
- p. 428Volcanic soil, lavas and craters; scenery not beautiful yet enjoyable.read · scan
- p. 430–431Describes the giant kauri pines and impenetrable forests of New Zealand.read · scan
- p. 449Describes Storm Bay, the Derwent, basaltic platforms and Mount Wellington at arrival at Hobart Town.read · scan
- p. 457Describes the beauty of the lagoon's colours, the white beach and the cocoa-nut groves of Direction Island.read · scan
- p. 462Delights in the moonlit tropical scene and the teeming coral life, while doubting exuberant naturalists' praise.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 967–968Rich pastoral scenery of river, barley fields, willows and island frames the tale.read · scan
- p. 986–993Describes the dreamy landscape of the Lotos-land, with its streams, mountains and eternal afternoon.read · scan
Charles Dickens, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1147–1148The ivy is celebrated as a hardy natural plant that endures where man's works decay.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 43Description of Juan Fernandez rising blue from the sea, with land sounds and breezes after months at sea.read · scan
- p. 151–152Roaming the woods among birds, snakes, hares, foxes, trees and flowers.read · scan
- p. 227Starry heaven and green landscape of Monterey described.read · scan
- p. 333Trinidad island seen as a blue mound rising from a field of glass on a calm day.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 375Describes the solitude and stillness of the unsettled Bay of San Francisco in 1835, with barren hills and fog.read · scan
- p. 375–376Wild beasts and deer gaze at the departing ship in the untouched earlier landscape.read · scan
- p. 384–385The same Pacific surf, hills and golden sunlight persist unchanged.read · scan
- p. 398–400Penang is a fairy-like scene of sea and sky, beautiful though the fever lurks.read · scan
Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of GrassVol. 39
- p. 389–390Catalogues rivers, seas, forests and birds of America as absorbed into the poet's spirit.read · scan
George Meredith, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1142–1143Wild field-roses preferred to prim garden flowers; farm and summer landscape.read · scan
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1179–1180Fields, hedge and dragonfly form the tranquil setting of the lovers' hour.read · scan
Thomas Edward Brown, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1148The garden's rose plot, pool and grot are a school of peace.read · scan
Sidney Lanier, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1390–1391Lush description of live-oak groves and the marshes of Glynn as places of beauty and refuge.read · scan
- p. 1391–1392The vast marshes and sea open before the poet, portrayed in sweeping beauty.read · scan
- p. 1392–1394Tide floods the marsh creeks until sea and marsh are one, then night falls.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel PepysVol. 28
- p. 296–297The pleasant, innocent scene of downs, sheep, glow-worms and nosegays, evoking the early innocence of man.read · scan
9b.Mountains, glaciers, wilderness and the sublime
See also: Geology 8c · The Sublime 3c · Beauty 4a · Exploration 4a
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 164Description of the sheer cliffs, cave, and Charybdis' tides.read · scan
BeowulfVol. 49
- p. 40–41Eerie moorland, wolf-cliffs and fire on the mere are described; even the hunted hart will not plunge in.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of GuianaVol. 33
- p. 368–369Describes the great crystal mountain with a river rushing over its top, a waterfall of wonderful strangeness.read · scan
Francis Pretty, Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the WorldVol. 33
- p. 206Describes the Strait of Magellan: turning channels, deep water, towering snow-covered mountains, cold and evergreen trees.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 237The dawn scene over the Po and Alps displays nature's grandeur and beauty as setting for the conversation.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 250–252Wild mossy mountains and streams are preferred to rich valleys as the setting of love.read · scan
- p. 276–278Admiration of wild Highland scenery at Breadalbane and the birks of Aberfeldy, soothing grief and disappointment.read · scan
- p. 280–283Praise of wild Highland streams and waterfalls; Nature reigning without control suits the pensive soul.read · scan
- p. 362–363Farewell to Highland mountains, glens, forests and torrents; the heart remains among wild scenery.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 380–381Chamois hunter's song and herdsmen's weather-signs show mountain scenery and an approaching storm read from animal behavior.read · scan
- p. 438–439Mountain forest shields Altdorf from avalanches; the contrast between rugged heights and fair lowlands.read · scan
- p. 486Tell describes the perilous mountain road with the gorge, avalanches and snow.read · scan
James Hogg, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 760–761Vivid landscape of glens, lakes, forests and isles, like little peaceful heavens in the bosom of earth.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerVol. 41
- p. 684–685A desolate world of ice, fog and fearful sounds surrounds the ship.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 701–702Sacred river, chasm, fountain and forests described as savage, holy and enchanted natural scenery.read · scan
- p. 707–708Mont Blanc, its torrents, pines and stars described in awe as sublime natural scenery.read · scan
- p. 708–710Ice-falls, flowers, goats, eagles, lightning and avalanche portrayed as wonders of creation.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 317–318Detailed description of the rugged valley, cliffs, torrent and crags around the castle.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 417Alpine crags, glaciers, mists and fallen mountains supply the setting and imagery.read · scan
- p. 422–423Manfred rapturously describes the sunbow, torrent and Alpine solitude as sweet loveliness and refuge.read · scan
- p. 423–428Scene of the Jungfrau summit with moon, snows and ice described.read · scan
Sir Aubrey de Vere, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 911–912Sonnets depict a dark stream, cataract, mountains, tempest and a sunburst over the bay.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 461America's vast, sleeping wilderness overwhelms man, contrasted with England's trimmed hedgerows and over-cultivated gardens.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1251The forest seer roams unplanted Maine woods, seeing moose, bear, flowers and the fall of an aged pine.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 241–242Sunset, swans, hills, whales and dolphins present natural scenery of sea and land.read · scan
- p. 282–283North Wind describes the polar landscape, its animals and ice.read · scan
- p. 286–287The flight over woods, fields, seas, towns and the Himalayas is rendered as a vivid view of natural scenery from above.read · scan
- p. 359–360Forest solitude fills the boy's heart while apes grin in the trees.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 40First mountain scenery made deep impression and colored his tastes through life.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1285–1286Pines felled in Maine forests, dragged away to become masts, remembering their native forests.read · scan
- p. 1320–1321Description of the Mississippi, bayous, cypress, moss and moonlight as the exiles' boat passes through the wilderness.read · scan
- p. 1321–1322Mysterious sounds of the swamp night, the silence, and echoes of the bugle in the forest.read · scan
- p. 1329Description of the western desert, mountains, rivers, prairies and wild creatures under the sky like God's protecting hand.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 112Describes the desolate plain and the Rio Sauce as it rides toward Buenos Ayres.read · scan
- p. 112–113Describes the solitary desolate Sierra Ventana, the sea-like plain, and streams whose water origin lies in mountains.read · scan
- p. 172–173Solitary, barren wilderness excites a strong sense of pleasure and awe.read · scan
- p. 214Describes the mountainous, forested land, peat, torrent and ravine of Tierra del Fuego, where Death rather than Life seems the predominant spirit.read · scan
- p. 215–216Ascent of a mountain shows the savage grandeur, gloom and harsh climate of Tierra del Fuego's landscape.read · scan
- p. 225Magnificent mountain scenery with a level tree line like a drift-weed high-water mark.read · scan
- p. 228–229Describes the grand Beagle Channel scenery, whales and solemn night in a remote wilderness.read · scan
- p. 229Glaciers, snow-covered mountains and icebergs described as beautiful, with a glacier-fall wave producing a danger.read · scan
- p. 238Winter scenery of Port Famine and the deceptive apparent height of mountains.read · scan
- p. 238–239Ascent of Mount Tarn through dense, decaying forest to a view characteristic of Tierra del Fuego.read · scan
- p. 245–246Depicts sublime mountain, glacier and storm scenery where the elements reign over man.read · scan
- p. 250Describes glaciers descending to the sea, falling ice masses and resulting waves in Tierra del Fuego.read · scan
- p. 250–251Describes immense glaciers and icebergs at low latitudes, some carrying foreign granite blocks.read · scan
- p. 262Pleasure in the beautiful scenery of the Andes and Chile seen as in a map.read · scan
- p. 265–266Mountain scenery, cactuses, snowstorm and volcano described; geology shows past commotions.read · scan
- p. 266–267Describes the acacia basins, the plain of Santiago and the Andes as striking scenery.read · scan
- p. 267Torrents, valley and wild beauty of the baths' setting.read · scan
- p. 269Ravines, mountain views and the floating islands of Lake Tagua-tagua described.read · scan
- p. 279–280Describes three active volcanoes and the Andes seen from one view, with optical illusion of curvature.read · scan
- p. 284Describes the impenetrable, tangled forest and vegetation of San Pedro, where the explorers struggle like fishes in a net.read · scan
- p. 286–287Scenery of durable barren granite ranges, profitless to man and animals.read · scan
- p. 288Coastal scenery of granite mountains, cascades and the dependence of birds on fish in fresh water.read · scan
- p. 288–289Luxuriant vegetation and splendid views of snowy Cordillera cones from the anchorage.read · scan
- p. 297Solemn primeval forests with dead trunks like skeletons, and a starry night.read · scan
- p. 302Forest character changes with latitude; contrasts wearying uniformity of forest with plains, yet its sublime silence.read · scan
- p. 322Describes Andean scenery: colored porphyry hills, dykes, strata and detritus slopes, scanty life.read · scan
- p. 323Describes the Valle del Yeso, its thick gypsum bed and the mountain pass, and the strata of the Cordillera as natural scenery.read · scan
- p. 325–326Sublime mountain scenery and solitude, with rarefied air and snow.read · scan
- p. 328–329Describes the ascent of the Portillo, its snow fields, ice pinnacles and the magical moonlit mountains.read · scan
- p. 331View over the Pampas, rivers glittering like silver threads lost in immense distance, and the valley opening onto the plain.read · scan
- p. 337Snow-fed torrents vary with the hour of day; barren valleys and rocky mountains.read · scan
- p. 338Describes the Incas Bridge as natural formation and the grand mountain scenery, clear sky and atmosphere at the Cumbre.read · scan
- p. 363Desolate scenery is sublime for a time, then uninteresting; regular mountain winds.read · scan
- p. 377Depicts the barren black lava landscape of Chatham Island and its stunted, apparently leafless but actually flowering vegetation.read · scan
- p. 378Depicts lava fields, numerous craters and giant tortoises on Chatham Island as a strange, Cyclopean, antediluvian scene.read · scan
- p. 380Describes lava flows, craters, a brine crater lake and sterile land on Albemarle and Narborough islands.read · scan
- p. 411Journey up a valley of gorges, precipices and lava walls, described as more magnificent than anything Darwin had seen.read · scan
- p. 412Waterfalls, ledges and abrupt ravines are described, exceeding in abruptness even the Cordillera.read · scan
- p. 416–417Descent along narrow ridges and ravines through wild banana groves, with Darwin wondering at the precipices.read · scan
- p. 441Describes the vast forested gulf and vertical sandstone cliffs at the Weatherboard as a novel and magnificent view.read · scan
- p. 441Describes the stupendous scenery of Govett's Leap and the sandstone valleys, their gorges and impassable cliffs.read · scan
- p. 486Describes natural scenery of the island's plains and volcanic peaks.read · scan
- p. 487Compares landscapes of lava fields and mountains to Galapagos, Tahiti and Brazil.read · scan
- p. 493–494Describes the wind barrier at the cliff and the desolate volcanic scenery of Ascension.read · scan
- p. 495–496Ascension appears in naked hideousness, with rugged lava streams and sleeping seafowl.read · scan
- p. 506Primeval forests and the Patagonian plains impress the mind with sublimity and boundlessness.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 136–138The high table-land, cliff and sea are viewed from above, with men looking like mice, quoting Shakespeare.read · scan
- p. 297A huge iceberg floating in a deep blue sea shows nature's grandeur, with cracking and thundering falls of ice.read · scan
- p. 297–298The iceberg's shading from indigo to snow-white, its slow heaving and thundering falls of ice are observed by night against the stars.read · scan
- p. 298Dozens of icebergs and dangerous field-ice fill the sea, harder to avoid than the large islands.read · scan
- p. 310–311Ice islands, sea and sun described as natural scenery, seeming almost animate.read · scan
- p. 320Desolate island of rocks and ice beyond human cultivation, at the meeting of two oceans.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 391Big Trees and the Yo Semite Valley are described as a stupendous miracle of nature, with falls and cliffs.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 155Snowdon and Holyhead's grandeur, which the Greeks would have loved, are unused by the nation.read · scan
Hermann von Helmholtz, Ice and GlaciersVol. 30
- p. 211The Alpine world of ice and snow has sublime charm; its scenery attracts travellers and reveals enormous natural forces.read · scan
- p. 212Describes atmospheric and mountain phenomena of the Alps.read · scan
- p. 213Describes Alpine scenery, flowers blooming among snow fields, and climatic differences between mountain slopes.read · scan
- p. 219–220Portrays the blue ice of crevasses as one of nature's most splendid spectacles, mixed with danger.read · scan
- p. 229–230Describes glacial action on the Alpine valleys' rocks and landscape.read · scan
Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic RacesVol. 32
- p. 176Faithful picturesque description of polar seas, ice, fiords and fogs.read · scan
Sir Archibald Geikie, Geographical EvolutionVol. 30
- p. 341–342Nature sculpts the land like an artist with air, frost, rivers, glaciers, carving valleys and mountains from a featureless mass.read · scan
9c.Storms, seas and the violence of nature
See also: Geology 7a · Courage 8f · The Sublime 3a
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 74–75Storm winds East, South, West and North clash, shrouding land and sea.read · scan
- p. 116–117Zeus's North Wind storm drives the ships off course for nine days.read · scan
- p. 130Aeolus, keeper of the winds, lulls or rouses them, and they are bound in a bag.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 130–131Storm, lightning, snow, ice and clouds are portrayed as directed by God, and animals shelter.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 282Storms at sea, rivers and deserts changed by God's command.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 355The sea rises as a monstrous wave in the sky, roaring and answered by echoes.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 73A violent storm of raging winds and seas, described in vivid detail, wrecks the Trojan fleet.read · scan
- p. 73–77Storm and calm sea are described as the work of gods and winds.read · scan
- p. 131A violent storm scatters the fleet, hiding the stars for three days so even the pilot Palinurus loses his way.read · scan
- p. 145Vivid description of Etna's eruptions, Charybdis and the sea's violence.read · scan
- p. 178The storm at sea and the pilot's reading of clouds and stars.read · scan
- p. 202The deceptive sea is likened to a harlot's smile; Palinurus distrusts its treacherous calm.read · scan
Tacitus, GermanyVol. 33
- p. 111–112The ocean's roughness thwarted Drusus's exploration and forbade discovery of itself.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 284Describes the Vesuvius cloud like a pine tree, and speculates on its causes.read · scan
- p. 288Earthquake overturns buildings and the sea rolls back from its shore, leaving sea animals stranded.read · scan
- p. 288Volcanic cloud, flame, falling ashes and a darkness like a shut room.read · scan
- p. 325–326Describes the Tiber and Anio flooding, storm and hurricane devastating land, villas and herds.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 162Devil raises vapour, rain and flood, explained by meteorology.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 337A terrifying hailstorm with lemon-sized stones devastates trees, beasts and herdsmen.read · scan
Ambroise Paré, Journeys in Diverse PlacesVol. 38
- p. 16–17A great sea wind wrecks the tents, salts the meat with sand and drowns carters.read · scan
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake RevivedVol. 33
- p. 149–150Strong river current, monstrous storm with thunder and lightning, and swarms of mosquitoes shape the voyagers' hardship in the tropical country.read · scan
- p. 159–160Foul weather, cold and heavy seas keep the English shut in the harbour for days.read · scan
Captain Walter Bigges, Drake's Great ArmadaVol. 33
- p. 252–253Sea voyage governed by wind, weather and scarcity of water.read · scan
- p. 257The great storm endangers the fleet, breaking cables and losing anchors.read · scan
Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandVol. 33
- p. 274Fog, storms, adverse winds and drifting ice mountains at sea hinder the voyage.read · scan
- p. 288Sea and weather give tokens of coming storm: porpoises in herds and fair evening portend tempest; thick mist and shoals threaten the ships.read · scan
- p. 291–292Gilbert says they are fighting against the elements in storms and shoals.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of GuianaVol. 33
- p. 305–306Describes flooded rivers, woods and swift currents that made mining and further stay impossible in Guiana.read · scan
- p. 355–356The great Caroli overfalls are described as a wonderful thunder of waters like a shower of rain.read · scan
- p. 361The raging, overflowing river and terrible rains force the party to turn back.read · scan
- p. 371Storms, thunder and the raging swollen Orenoque endanger the small boats during the return.read · scan
Francis Pretty, Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the WorldVol. 33
- p. 202Describes a burning island with a fire of sulphur beside a green, well-watered island, fire and sea contrasted.read · scan
- p. 203Storms, calms, lightning, flying fish and abundant seals and fowl are described as the natural marvels of the passage.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 258–262Lear rages against the storm, striving to out-scorn wind and rain in his little world of man.read · scan
- p. 262–264Lear calls upon storm, wind and thunder to strike the world flat and spill the seeds of ingrateful man.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The TempestVol. 46
- p. 397–398The tempest defies the authority of king and counsellor; the boatswain says roarers care nothing for the name of king.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 90Volcanic landscape of Hell compared with Etna's fiery eruptions.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise RegainedVol. 4
- p. 395–405Storm and sunny morning described vividly; tempest compared to turbulence in human affairs.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 293–294Vivid description of storm, foaming waves and corposant at sea.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 509The hostile tropical wilderness of scorpions, snakes, tigers and tornado contrasts with gentle native groves.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 169–171Wild, eerie Brocken landscape of storm, trees, mountain and glowing chasms, animated by witchery.read · scan
- p. 171–173A raging storm shatters the forest as the witches ride to the Brocken.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 395Approaching storm and the ripe harvest frame the journey.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 233–234Flooding rivers will test the new bridge against nature's force.read · scan
- p. 248–250A winter storm rages, sparing neither cattle, sheep nor birds; nature's harshness is contrasted with man's.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 451–452The storm is described as a savage beast raging in its cage of rocks, mastering all helm and steersman.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 610–612Tropic storms and lush forms fed his impetuous blood and sense of kinship with wild things.read · scan
- p. 656–658After the storm, morning brings birdsong and a hare running in mirth.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerVol. 41
- p. 682–684Storm-blast drives the ship south, a tyrannous natural force pursuing the sailors.read · scan
- p. 685–687Calm sea, copper sky and rotting deep show nature made hostile.read · scan
- p. 692–694Lightning, wind and rain and sweet natural sounds like skylarks and brooks.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 731–732The storm wind personified across crags and groves.read · scan
Allan Cunningham, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 782–783Sailors revel in wind, waves and storm as their home.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 409–410The spirits embody mountain, glacier, sea, earthquake and storm, dramatizing natural forces and scenery.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 834–835Ode to the West Wind: storm clouds, sea and forest tremble at the wind's power.read · scan
- p. 851–852The cloud speaks of tending flowers, hail, thunder and dew.read · scan
- p. 852–853The Cloud describes snow, lightning, sunrise, moon, stars and rainbow in vivid natural imagery.read · scan
John Keats, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 892–893Storm, sleet and frost-wind accompany the lovers' flight.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 244Violent storm at sea destroys the ship, showing the sea's power.read · scan
- p. 283–284The West Wind recounts wilderness, river, cataract and storms felling ancient trees.read · scan
- p. 355–356Fields, willow and storm are described as the setting for the fable.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1269–1271The storm and sea as cruel, overpowering forcesread · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 47Natural spectacles at sea: porpoise shoals, luminous sea, St. Elmo's light, lightning, river and sea water mixing slowly.read · scan
- p. 167Describes the beautiful phosphorescent sea at night, waves glowing with pale light as the ship drives through liquid phosphorus.read · scan
- p. 209Describes the wild, forested, gale-swept landscape of Tierra del Fuego as unlike anything Darwin had seen.read · scan
- p. 216–217Storms at Cape Horn, the geology of the islands and the vegetation on shell heaps described.read · scan
- p. 221Violent gales and seas at Cape Horn, the warring elements, contrasted with delight of a still night.read · scan
- p. 246–247Describes the desolate barren western coast and its raging breakers, evoking shipwreck and death.read · scan
- p. 285Describes a sublime storm with clouds, spray, rainbow forming a ring, and the impassable rugged coast and woods.read · scan
- p. 299–300Rugged coast, surf and impassable wooded country described as natural scenery.read · scan
- p. 304–305Impassable forests, decay of fallen trees, and a severe earthquake felt as rocking ground.read · scan
- p. 306Earthquake and its effects on tides and the harbour observed as natural phenomena.read · scan
- p. 306–307Overwhelming power of the earthquake and great wave shown in wreckage, cast-up rocks and fissured ground.read · scan
- p. 307Earthquake and great wave destroyed Concepcion and Talcahuano, the worst recorded in Chile.read · scan
- p. 308–309Subterranean forces long inert could again upheave a country as in former geological ages.read · scan
- p. 309Great wave tore up cottages and moved a four-ton cannon, showing prodigious force of the sea after the quake.read · scan
- p. 332The locust cloud is a natural spectacle and a pest against which cottagers are powerless.read · scan
- p. 352Barren valley scenery and the harm of drought followed by destructive floods.read · scan
- p. 406Describes the Pacific passage, trade-winds and low coral lagoon islands rising weakly against the great sea.read · scan
- p. 460Sees the ocean and land as struggling for mastery on the narrow islets.read · scan
- p. 463Marvels at the grandeur of the breakers and the coral polyps that conquer the ocean's mechanical power.read · scan
- p. 469Introduces the three classes of coral reef and the striking aspect of atolls amid ocean and breakers.read · scan
- p. 471–472Describes barrier-reefs as wonderful structures encircling islands.read · scan
- p. 472–474Describes barrier-reefs, their sizes and structure, likened to a castle with wall and moat, with tropical scenery.read · scan
- p. 475–476Describes fringing-reefs and how their width depends on the slope of submerged land and coral growth.read · scan
- p. 504Describes the sea's calm and storms, finding a storm finer on shore than at sea.read · scan
- p. 506–507Earthquakes, volcanoes and glaciers impress with the insignificance of man's works.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 11–12Storm at sea with heavy head sea and howling wind.read · scan
- p. 26Violent Pampero gales preceded by lightning, described as they strike the ship.read · scan
- p. 28Gale moderates after cold rain, and the Falkland Islands appear blue in the distance as they near Cape Horn.read · scan
- p. 30The sudden Cape Horn gale and heavy sea show the violence of nature against the small brig.read · scan
- p. 31Continuing storms, snow, and Cape Horn's peculiar calms with high seas that leave vessels helpless.read · scan
- p. 32Calm sea, fog and swell, then renewed storms of snow and hail.read · scan
- p. 32A Cape Horn storm strikes suddenly with hail, sleet and a rising sea.read · scan
- p. 32–34Fury of wind and seas defies every attempt to make oneself heard; days of the same weather follow.read · scan
- p. 57–59Evening surf and the great fire that burned the hills' trees show nature's power and grandeur.read · scan
- p. 135–136Description of the rocky, exposed anchorage at San Juan and its dangers.read · scan
- p. 196–197Gale, surf and swell threaten the boats and ship.read · scan
- p. 211–212A gale blowing from a cloudless, starry sky; the sailor marvels at the sight and the wind coming from nowhere.read · scan
- p. 216–217Three-day gale under a cloudless sky, with sun and stars unobscured over immense foaming surges.read · scan
- p. 217The violence of the gale and its abating, with clouds returning to the sky.read · scan
- p. 217–219A gale drives the ship half the distance to the Sandwich Islands; wind governs the passage.read · scan
- p. 288Cold, shortening days and heavy seas near Cape Horn; the deep ship meets a huge wave threatening to cover her.read · scan
- p. 288A single heavy sea sweeps the deck clean, showing the sea's overwhelming power over ship and crew.read · scan
- p. 292Rain, sleet, snow and wind strike suddenly; the squall lays the ship on her beam-ends.read · scan
- p. 298Gales, fog, hail and ice islands surround the ship off Cape Horn, showing nature's overwhelming, threatening power.read · scan
- p. 307Ship encased in ice, with field-ice covering the ocean, shows the harsh southern sea.read · scan
- p. 310Ice islands and field-ice loom out of the mist near Cape Horn, nearly destroying the ship.read · scan
- p. 336Trade winds, calms, and an ominous stillness before a tropical thunderstorm are vividly described.read · scan
- p. 336Terrific thunder, lightning and deluge over a becalmed ocean.read · scan
- p. 336Lightning and thunder over the ocean; the storm's malignant brilliance and its passing into a clear morning.read · scan
- p. 339Rising wind, heavy head sea and black clouds mark an approaching gale.read · scan
- p. 339Gale and heavy seas batter the ship.read · scan
Frank Aretas Haskell, The Battle of GettysburgVol. 43
- p. 371The battle's noise is compared to a summer storm with thunder, lightning and hail, though the comparison falls short.read · scan
Sir Archibald Geikie, Geographical EvolutionVol. 30
- p. 333–334Describes volcanic action and igneous rocks as nature's subterranean laboratories, with proofs of ancient volcanism widespread.read · scan
9d.Seasons, spring and the beauty of the year
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 36Tien's ideal is spring outings in natural scenery.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 98A simile of frost, sun and the shepherd's changing hope depicts the seasonal world.read · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 11Spring rains and warm winds revive plants and stir birds, so that nature pricks creatures and folk to go on pilgrimage.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 405He delights in the fine early summer and the marvellously beautiful country.read · scan
John Lyly, Cupid and Campaspe; Spring's WelcomeVol. 40
- p. 209Nightingale, lark, robin and cuckoo sing to welcome spring.read · scan
William Shakespeare, Songs and SonnetsVol. 40
- p. 262–264Winter scenes and springtime countryside, with the greenwood as refuge from ambition and rough weather.read · scan
Thomas Nashe, In Time of Pestilence; SpringVol. 40
- p. 260–261Spring poem celebrates blooming, birdsong, lambs, and young lovers meeting.read · scan
Thomas Heywood, Pack, Clouds, AwayVol. 40
- p. 316–317Larks, nightingale, robin and other birds called to sing at morning.read · scan
William Drummond, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 329Dawn invoked to make an eternal spring and chase the night.read · scan
Robert Herrick, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 338–339May morning, dew and flowers call the lovers outdoors.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 34–39Brook, bee, dew, May morning with primrose and cowslip.read · scan
Thomas Gray, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 451–453Spring's flowers, birds, shade and insects described as the untaught harmony of nature.read · scan
- p. 460–462Spring returns with flocks, birds and lark, contrasted with the wintry year.read · scan
William Collins, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 478–480Evening scene of dusk, bat, beetle and dew in the Ode to Evening.read · scan
- p. 480–481Evening and the seasons pictured through hut, hills, floods and spires, each season honoring Eve.read · scan
Michael Bruce, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 570–571The cuckoo as visitant of spring, with flowers, woods and music of birds.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 43–45Spring's thaw and renewed growth are described; people come out into sunlight.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and DorotheaVol. 19
- p. 338Clear sky, cool east wind and ripe cornfields foretell a good harvest.read · scan
William Blake, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 583–585Invocation to Spring to visit the land, personifying the season.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 44–46Autumn fields, moon, birds each finding their own pleasure; lovers walk to view the charms of Nature.read · scan
- p. 87–89Summer and winter scenery charm feeling hearts; Burns prefers describing Nature's face to the worldly scramble for treasure.read · scan
- p. 177–179Young Burns delighted in shore, storm, blossoming groves and harvest fields.read · scan
- p. 230–231Autumn scene of harvest, birds and mild weather.read · scan
- p. 246–248Opens a winter poem describing biting Boreas, leafless bower and drifting snow.read · scan
- p. 339–341Natural scenery of spring, flowers, streams and bees is compared with the beloved.read · scan
- p. 417–418Spring, summer, autumn, winter and the Afton river sceneryread · scan
- p. 451–453Thrush's song clears winter's brow; summer to Nature.read · scan
- p. 503–506Spring groves, birds, flowers and lambs form the setting; Nature smiles as sweet on shepherds as on kings.read · scan
- p. 538–540Spring scenery, rosebuds and streams serve as images for the lover's joy and blighted youth.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 639–641Daffodils, daisy and cuckoo are celebrated as sources of joy; nature repairs the poet's heart with gladness and meekness.read · scan
- p. 641–643Birds, blossoms and flowers enjoy spring; the poet believes every flower enjoys the air it breathes.read · scan
- p. 643–645Birds and budding twigs seem to feel pleasure; Nature's holy plan.read · scan
Robert Tannahill, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 593–594Scottish glens, birds and blooming spring form the setting for love.read · scan
Thomas Campbell, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 770–771The Seasons personified as children of the Sun, Spring and Summer joyous, Vintage crowned.read · scan
- p. 772–774Winter personified as a savage sire of storms deflowering Nature's robe; the poet begs him to rule gently.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 827–829Skylark soaring in the sunset, moon and dawn light described.read · scan
- p. 839–840Autumn noon and evening over the Apennine and Alps; all living things and the poet's spirit interpenetrated by the glory of the sky.read · scan
- p. 842–843Rich catalogue of flowers and streams in a dream of spring; Spring's day brings freedom to frozen streams and mountains.read · scan
- p. 860–861Renewing spring life bursts through wood, stream and hill with change and motion.read · scan
John Keats, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 871Catalogue of spring and summer flowers, birds and creatures conjured by Fancy.read · scan
- p. 878–879Autumn ode: season of mellow fruitfulness ripening fruit with the sun.read · scan
- p. 880–881Autumn personified in granary, furrow and cider-press; its own music of gnats, lambs, crickets and swallows.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity CollegeVol. 5
- p. 25Summer scenery and the mystery and perfection of nature, rich in every property inviting man's faculties.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1246–1247Summer flowers, south wind and sunny hours are shown as sweet nature the bee inhabits.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 228Seasons pass from bitter ice to sweet spring garden scenery.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1303–1304Autumn signs, birds of passage, and the Summer of All-Saints are described in harmonious detail.read · scan
Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic PrincipleVol. 28
- p. 379–381Bryant's verses dwell on summer light, flowers, oriole and bee.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1067–1069Love of an English spring, the thrush's song and April's leaves.read · scan
- p. 1072–1073Spring morning pictured as evidence of an ordered world.read · scan
Henry David Thoreau, WalkingVol. 28
- p. 422Pine blossoms bloom unseen above men's heads; nature's beauty goes unobserved by farmers and hunters.read · scan
- p. 423–424Sunset light on a meadow makes a paradise, renewed forever for each later child.read · scan
- p. 424–425The sun sets gloriously on a remote meadow with no one to see, in serene golden light.read · scan
Charles Kingsley, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1062Celebrates the harsh winter wind and its scenery over soft summer airs.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1412–1413The lilac, drooping star and returning spring frame the mourning.read · scan
George Meredith, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1141–1142Dawn, sunset, twilight and spring flowers frame the girl's charm.read · scan
- p. 1144–1145Summer, harvest and moonrise set the scene.read · scan
- p. 1145Spring beech leaves and flushing woodland trees seem to know what is for heaven alone.read · scan
Algernon Charles Swinburne, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1199–1201Celebrates the return of spring, its streams, leaves, flowers and fruit, driving out winter.read · scan
- p. 1201–1202Spring, summer and migrating birds as setting.read · scan
9e.Climate, soil and geography shaping peoples and economy
See also: Geology 7b · Exploration 6a
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 117–118Describes the island's fertile untilled soil, meadows, vines and harbor.read · scan
- p. 180Athene describes Ithaca's rugged but fertile land, with corn, wine, dew and pasture.read · scan
Herodotus, An Account of EgyptVol. 33
- p. 8Egypt is a gift of the river: silt deposited by the Nile has built land out of former swamp and sea.read · scan
- p. 8–11Egypt was once a sea gulf filled by Nile silt; rivers like the Acheloos also make mainland, over ten or twenty thousand years.read · scan
- p. 11The Nile's flooding and the land's rising height affect Egypt's fertility; Greece depends on rain from Zeus.read · scan
- p. 14–15The Nile is unlike other rivers, rising for a hundred days from the solstice and raising no breezes.read · scan
- p. 20–22Egypt's unique climate and river are said to shape its people's ways.read · scan
- p. 47Gnats cannot fly high in the wind, so towers protect those dwelling above the fen.read · scan
- p. 48Nile flood turns Egypt into a sea with cities rising like islands.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 104–105Purer air and ether give a temperate climate without disease.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 131Blighted air, scorched grass and pestilential heat of Sirius afflict the new settlement.read · scan
Tacitus, GermanyVol. 33
- p. 93Geography of Germany: rivers, ocean, mountains, harsh climate.read · scan
- p. 95Land of forests and marshes, good for grain but not fruit trees.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 264–265Describes climate, air and seasons of the Tuscan countryside.read · scan
The Destruction of Dá Derga's HostelVol. 49
- p. 215–216Sun, dew, wind and wolves are said to be ordered favorably under the just king.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 248–249Camphor trees and their harvesting are described, the tree drying to firewood afterward.read · scan
The Voyages to VinlandVol. 43
- p. 8Description of the new land's sweet dew, abundant salmon, mild winters and equal day and night.read · scan
- p. 11Fair wooded country with white sands and islands, without human or animal dwellers.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 175–179Nature and use give the land its privilege to walk aright.read · scan
- p. 230Purgatory's mount is exempt from weather and earthly change; no tempest, hail or cloud rises above the gate.read · scan
Christopher Columbus, The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His DiscoveryVol. 43
- p. 22Columbus describes the islands' mountains, forests, rivers, birds and fertile land as marvelously beautiful and abundant.read · scan
Amerigo Vespucci, Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First VoyageVol. 43
- p. 28Pleasant, fruitful evergreen land with immense forests and unfamiliar fruits.read · scan
Sir Thomas More, UtopiaVol. 36
- p. 137Describes torrid equatorial wildernesses full of beasts, giving way to temperate, pleasant lands.read · scan
- p. 174Describes the site of Amaurote, its rivers, tides and hill, with the city planned to suit its natural setting.read · scan
William Harrison, A Description of Elizabethan EnglandVol. 35
- p. 271Northern climate keeps in bodily heat so English stomachs need more nourishment than southern peoplesread · scan
- p. 285Quality of brewing water depends on soil and source: Thames, chalk, standing water best, fenny worst.read · scan
- p. 307Harrison defends England's air as wholesome and its soil as fruitful, with natural differences among Britain, Wales and Scotland.read · scan
- p. 308Describes English rivers, hills, marl and quarries as natural resources supporting agriculture.read · scan
- p. 309Fierce winds lead people to build in valleys rather than on hills.read · scan
- p. 310Describes pasture quality by soil, Welsh fruitfulness compared with Italy.read · scan
- p. 311Compares low and land meadows, flooding and hay quality.read · scan
- p. 313English cattle excel, credited to God's grace and the soil's bounty.read · scan
- p. 316Describes soils, clay and sand, valleys and fens of Britain, and how soil governs harvest plenty or dearth.read · scan
- p. 319Lists England's minerals; the sea has washed away much of Cornwall and Devon's mineral-rich land.read · scan
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake RevivedVol. 33
- p. 133Describes the great buttressed trees, evergreen and one species shedding leaves in three days, with wood heavier than Brazil.read · scan
- p. 168The climate and the land's fruits and game shape the Cimaroons' way of life.read · scan
- p. 171–172Fertile champion country has grass burnt thrice yearly that springs up fresh in three days, due to even days and nights and rich dews.read · scan
Captain Walter Bigges, Drake's Great ArmadaVol. 33
- p. 234–235Describes Santiago's valley, mountains, stream and its fruits such as cocos and plantains.read · scan
Edward Haies, Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandVol. 33
- p. 275Describes the Newfoundland bank, its cod fishery, sea-fowl, penguins and bare, hideous coast.read · scan
- p. 281Haies reasons about Newfoundland's climate, countering the common opinion of intolerable cold by latitude, mountains and sea.read · scan
- p. 283–285Nature prodigally ministers to men's endeavours in those lands.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of GuianaVol. 33
- p. 311–312Describes Trinidad's oyster-bearing trees, natural pitch, soil, animals and fruits, and its native nations.read · scan
- p. 327Describes rivers, mountains and fens of the Orinoco region and their swift currents and hazards.read · scan
- p. 327–329Marsh water is poisonous except near midday, breeding serpents and causing flux; mountains block passage.read · scan
- p. 337The labyrinth of near-identical rivers and islands defeats sun and compass, showing nature's bewildering scale and confluence of streams.read · scan
- p. 339–340The Orinoco's sixteen mouths, its yearly rise, and the rare birds and fruits described as unmatched elsewhere.read · scan
- p. 360Guiana's seasons are marked only by rains and floods; trees always bear fruit and blossom.read · scan
- p. 375Praises Guiana's game, plains, rivers, and healthful air, unmatched by any region.read · scan
- p. 377Describes Guiana's untouched land, its soil unspent and mines unbroken, and its natural defences of rivers, thick woods and mountains.read · scan
Francis Pretty, Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the WorldVol. 33
- p. 201Explains why fruit grows in winter near the tropics and describes the cocos tree and its fruit, plus natural salt gathered from the sands.read · scan
Michael Drayton, Agincourt; To the Virginian Voyage; Love's FarewellVol. 40
- p. 225–228Virginia pictured as a paradise where nature gives fowl, fish, fruitful soil and three harvests without toil.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among MankindVol. 34
- p. 198–199Climate and seasons force varied ways of living and industry.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 246–247Observes shoals, soil, timber scarcity and shy whales of the island.read · scan
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVol. 10
- p. 62–63Natural causes like unique soil and situation of vineyards permanently hinder effectual demand from being supplied.read · scan
- p. 148Landlords demand rent for kelp shores and fisheries that human industry never improved.read · scan
- p. 220–221Land, mines and fisheries supply the raw provisions and materials on which society's capital depends.read · scan
- p. 290In agriculture nature labours alongside man; rent is the produce of nature's powers, whereas in manufactures man does all.read · scan
- p. 298–300Each branch of trade is legitimate when the natural course of things introduces it without constraint.read · scan
- p. 306Natural course of things would make town wealth proportional to cultivation had human institutions not disturbed it.read · scan
- p. 307–308This order of capital employment is the natural course of things in growing societies.read · scan
- p. 337Capital and industry left to their natural employments grow fastest.read · scan
- p. 338Natural advantages of countries in producing commodities are so great that struggling against them is vain.read · scan
- p. 345–346Compares taxes on necessaries to natural scarcity from poor soil and climate, where people should adapt freely.read · scan
- p. 383–384Nature stamped on corn a real value that no legislation can alter.read · scan
- p. 437The natural distribution of produce is what perfect liberty would establish, and violating it brings declension.read · scan
- p. 537Taxes alter the natural direction of industry from the course it would follow of its own accord.read · scan
Oliver Goldsmith, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 520–521Alpine prospect of creation's charms; blessings given by Art or Nature balance among nations.read · scan
Friedrich von Schiller, Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of ManVol. 32
- p. 283–284Climate and a temperate, harmonious nature favour development of the beautiful.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 608–610Exotic descriptions of American flowers, magnolias, savannahs and lakes fill his tales.read · scan
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a UniversityVol. 28
- p. 41–42Describes Attica's clear air, olives, marble and landscape as a charm the mercantile eye would overlook.read · scan
- p. 42Vivid depiction of the Aegean's waves and shores.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, English TraitsVol. 5
- p. 332–333England's climate, rain, rivers and natural resources suit a working country.read · scan
- p. 334Coal smoke and fog darken England's sky, a drawback on industrial convenience; even climate is factitious.read · scan
- p. 334Geological accident separated Britain from France, giving a sea wall and national power.read · scan
- p. 335–336Nature speaks of shaping a rude northern race through climate, sea and poverty to build a new empire.read · scan
- p. 347Geographical position as an island made a hardy people sailors and factors of the globe.read · scan
- p. 353Harsh climate and barren soil shaped a tougher race; the strong survived.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 318The burning sun of the hot lands shapes daily life: people stay indoors by day and come out on balconies at evening.read · scan
Charles Tennyson Turner, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 921Ireland is praised for its fruitful land, forests and birdsong.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Origin of SpeciesVol. 11
- p. 110Oceanic island endemics are examined as natural test of remarks about isolation.read · scan
- p. 378Compares the diverse habitats of the Old and New Worlds, showing living productions differ despite similar climates.read · scan
- p. 379Barriers such as oceans, mountains and deserts correlate with differences in the productions of regions, on land and sea.read · scan
- p. 401–402Catalogues remarkable distribution of the same temperate plants on remote mountains and across hemispheres, facts demanding explanation.read · scan
- p. 402–403Identical or representative plants on Himalaya, Java, Borneo and Australian mountains, absent from intervening hot lowlands, illustrate puzzling geographic distribution.read · scan
- p. 409Fresh-water species range widely despite barriers; Darwin explains this by adaptation for short migrations and cites fish like Galaxias across distant lands.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 11Describes the barren volcanic landscape of St. Jago, its sudden vegetation after rain, and the delight of tropical scenery.read · scan
- p. 13–14Trade-wind bent acacias act as natural vanes; St. Domingo's valley beauty contrasts with the barren island.read · scan
- p. 37–38Describes clouds on the Corcovado, the delightful climate, rain on the forest and the evening concert of frogs and insects.read · scan
- p. 53–54Scenery of the Sierra and the puzzling absence of trees in Banda Oriental despite suitable soil and moisture.read · scan
- p. 55Darwin traces how forest and desert across South America follow the direction of moisture-bearing winds, with the Falklands as an exception.read · scan
- p. 81Describes changing vegetation, soil and shingle beds along the Colorado valley and Pampas.read · scan
- p. 82Sand-dunes, pools and small inequalities of soil supply water; evidence of recent elevation of land.read · scan
- p. 88Describes Pampean formation and slow elevation of land, evidenced by raised shell beds.read · scan
- p. 119Burning the plain to improve pasture, since unused vegetation must be removed for new growth.read · scan
- p. 123–124Marked change in the aspect of the country and vegetation after crossing the Salado.read · scan
- p. 132–133Change of climate over three degrees of latitude shown in plants, birds and people.read · scan
- p. 144Praises the river as a great natural channel of communication, while noting its muddy banks as a drawback to the scenery.read · scan
- p. 169–170Describes the desert Patagonian plains: level shingle, scant grass and bushes, dry climate and mirage.read · scan
- p. 182Describes the Santa Cruz river, its current, valley and terraces during the exploring expedition.read · scan
- p. 184Barren, uniform Patagonian landscape, cursed with sterility, limits life.read · scan
- p. 184–185Compares Patagonian fauna and landscape to Syrian deserts, with guanaco replacing gazelle.read · scan
- p. 191–192Notes Indian signs, stony plains that disable unshod horses, and stone heaps.read · scan
- p. 193–194Describes the desolate, monotonous Falkland landscape, peaty soil, harsh climate, and scanty wildlife.read · scan
- p. 199Treeless, boggy islands with only small bushes, contrasted with forested Tierra del Fuego.read · scan
- p. 217Wretched climate of snow, sleet and rain shapes the meagre shelter and life of the natives.read · scan
- p. 236Contrasting landscapes and climates within a short distance; atmospheric currents follow regular courses.read · scan
- p. 240–241Describes Fuegian forests, alpine plants and the fungus that serves as the natives' staple food, tied to soil and exposure.read · scan
- p. 242Links absence of reptiles and scarcity of birds to the damp, cold climate.read · scan
- p. 243Compares climate and productions of Tierra del Fuego with Patagonia and the tropics.read · scan
- p. 247Shows cool climate yet luxuriant vegetation and large vigorous shells in southern latitudes, compared with the north.read · scan
- p. 248–249Describes the equable humid climate along the west coast and its effect on fruits and luxuriant forests.read · scan
- p. 249Tabulates snow-line heights and explains them by summer heat, rainfall and forest cover across latitudes.read · scan
- p. 252–253Describes the surprising barrenness and everlasting snow of the Antarctic islands compared with lush Tierra del Fuego and Iceland at similar latitudes.read · scan
- p. 254–255Imaginative transposition of southern hemisphere climate to Europe shows how differently life and ice are distributed.read · scan
- p. 255Vivid imagined scene of glaciers, icebergs and ice falls placed in Europe, showing the severity of southern polar climate.read · scan
- p. 258Contrasts Valparaiso's dry, scanty vegetation with the forest to the south, and notes how climate affects the enjoyment of life.read · scan
- p. 275–276Notes how the humming-bird ranges across climates from dry Lima to snowy Tierra del Fuego and humid Chiloe.read · scan
- p. 277Describes Chiloe's forests, rainy climate, winds and the volcano seen at sunrise: natural scenery and climate.read · scan
- p. 283–284Gigantic panke plant, its uses and leaf size are described.read · scan
- p. 289–290Compares forest, climate and peat-forming plants of the Chonos, Chiloe and Tierra del Fuego.read · scan
- p. 290–291Southern American climate favours peat formation; Darwin traces its limits and contrasts with Europe.read · scan
- p. 301Apple trees thrive in the damp climate and self-sow along roads.read · scan
- p. 332Describes the level desert plains, dew, lack of water and saline plants between the Cordillera and Mendoza.read · scan
- p. 334Describes barren plain, spiny cacti and the gradual appearance of a stream, contrasting scenery of Santiago and Mendoza.read · scan
- p. 342Describes barren coastal country and how rainfall varies northward, with vegetation accommodating itself to scarce rain.read · scan
- p. 345–346Slight rain brings green to bare hills; farmers plant according to showers.read · scan
- p. 350–351Description of fertile valley versus barren desert scenery; traveller longs for green like a prisoner.read · scan
- p. 351Desert landscape, sparse vegetation and cloud banks over the Pacific described.read · scan
- p. 353Comparative barrenness of Chilean desert versus Patagonia; sterility is relative.read · scan
- p. 354Water scarcity and Andean snow determine life of the valley.read · scan
- p. 358Describes the dry Despoblado valley and its drainage, shaped by the sea's retreat as the land rose.read · scan
- p. 365Contrast of fresh clover with the scentless desert; sand producing roaring and chirping noises from friction.read · scan
- p. 365–366Utterly desert coast where rain falls once in many years.read · scan
- p. 368–369Callao's climate misrepresented: constant cloud bank, drizzling 'Peruvian dew' but little real rain.read · scan
- p. 369Compares climate, soil and vegetation of St. Jago, the Galapagos and Peru as bearing on healthfulness.read · scan
- p. 370Describes how humidity and vegetation change with height and latitude around Lima and northward toward Guayaquil.read · scan
- p. 376–377Describes the volcanic Galapagos, their craters, climate moderated by cold currents, and contrast of sterile lowlands with damp, vegetated uplands.read · scan
- p. 381Records extreme heat of sand and sun in the Galapagos.read · scan
- p. 394Notes the arid yet temperate climate of the islands, unlike a humid equatorial region.read · scan
- p. 397Contrasts the islands' volcanic geology and climate with the continent's, yet finds similar living types.read · scan
- p. 402–403Describes the islands as physically similar satellites of America, barren and rocky.read · scan
- p. 409–410Describes volcanic slopes, zones of vegetation explained by moisture and drainage, and the striking view of Eimeo and its reef.read · scan
- p. 426Fern abundance protects New Zealanders from famine; potato introduction a benefit.read · scan
- p. 427Fern-covered landscape, possibly cleared forest by fire, its apparent sterility not real.read · scan
- p. 435Sterile, scrubby coast at Port Jackson described.read · scan
- p. 436Describes the uniform, shadowless Australian woodland with vertical leaves and evergreen trees, contrasted with European and South American forests.read · scan
- p. 439–440Describes the Blue Mountains as a monotonous sandstone plateau with scrubby Eucalyptus, not the bold chain expected.read · scan
- p. 445–446Describes Australian sirocco-like wind, drought, treeless downs and the ponds of the Macquarie river.read · scan
- p. 450–452Describes Tasmanian climate, forests, tree-ferns and the view from Mount Wellington.read · scan
- p. 453Describes the poor sandy soil, stunted vegetation and dull scenery around King George's Sound, and the disappointing look of the Australian country.read · scan
- p. 458Surveys the scanty flora of the coral islands, which consist mostly of the cocoa-nut tree and a few weeds.read · scan
- p. 489Describes St. Helena's black rocky forbidding aspect and its British-looking vegetation.read · scan
- p. 505Compares the character of scenery in different countries, praising the tropics and vegetation over bare rock.read · scan
Sir Samuel Ferguson, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 921–922Ireland's barley, honey, streams, cuckoo and thrush celebrated as a plenteous land.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 57The dangerous south-easter and the mild California climate shape how ships must anchor and how the seasons feel.read · scan
- p. 70–72Describes the wooded, green landscape of Monterey bay, contrasted with the bare country to the south.read · scan
- p. 84Rich soil, fine climate, abundant water and a beautiful situation.read · scan
- p. 94Describes the bare, clayey, treeless coast and exposed anchorage at San Pedro.read · scan
- p. 170California's climate, harbors, soil and herds are praised as among the best in the world.read · scan
- p. 226–227Description of San Francisco Bay's beauty, fertility, climate and herds of deer.read · scan
- p. 333–334Describes tropical weather, sun and rain squalls at sea, and the ship's routine in answer to them.read · scan
- p. 334–335Tropical squalls and calms of the Atlantic tropics are described as typical.read · scan
- p. 344–345Describes the Gulf Stream's warm current, clouds, storms and heavy seas, and how wind against current makes an ugly sea.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Twenty-Four Years AfterVol. 23
- p. 385–386California summer has no bad weather; nature forbids rain and strong winds.read · scan
- p. 395–396Describes geysers, boiling caldrons, the Napa Valley's mild climate, and hydraulic mining that reshapes the land's surface.read · scan
Henry David Thoreau, WalkingVol. 28
- p. 405–406America's fertility and its variety of trees exceed Europe's; botanists confirm the richness of its wilderness.read · scan
- p. 406–407Travellers claim Nature painted the New World on a larger scale and in brighter colors; America is peculiarly fitted for man.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1383Nature breaks her old-world moulds to shape a new hero from the unexhausted West.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1416–1417Land, sun, morning, prairies and seasons celebrated in abundant natural scenery.read · scan
Hermann von Helmholtz, Ice and GlaciersVol. 30
- p. 240–241Glacier seen as a majestic stream obeying fixed laws, with beautiful waters and fertile loess, irrigating the land.read · scan
- p. 241–243Glacier meltwater feeds the Alpine rivers and fertile valleys; Goethe's poem pictures a mountain stream's course to the ocean.read · scan
Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic RacesVol. 32
- p. 137Brittany's cold wind, twisted trees, heath, granite and sombre sea produce a sad landscape.read · scan
Walter Bagehot, John MiltonVol. 28
- p. 188–189Climate, lacking sun, is said to ripen wits as fruits.read · scan
Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to the History of English LiteratureVol. 39
- p. 422–423Climate and landscape shape peoples: gloomy forests for Germans, sea and fine scenery for Greeks and Latins.read · scan
- p. 436Race and climate are the natural motors shaping the Saxon into the Englishman.read · scan
Sir Archibald Geikie, Geographical EvolutionVol. 30
- p. 325Geography presents the earth's forms and climates, with the action and reaction between living things and the inorganic world.read · scan
- p. 347–348Describes the warm-climate vegetation and volcanic scenery of the period.read · scan
9f.Nature's sympathy with and mirroring of human feeling
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 20Wisdom delights in water, love in hills: natural scenery mapped onto temperaments. Mostly about wisdom and love.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 167Night's calm, with beasts and winds at rest, contrasts with Dido's wakeful torment.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 98Gardens with fruits, streams, flowers and singing birds soothe his heart.read · scan
Edmund Spenser, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 232–233River murmurs low and slows its stream as though to show glad affection.read · scan
- p. 235–236Rivers, woods, fish, deer and birds singing at dawn join in celebrating the bridal morning.read · scan
John Milton, Tractate on EducationVol. 3
- p. 245It is an injury against nature not to go out in spring and share in her rejoicing.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at School and at College, 1624-1632Vol. 4
- p. 7–9Nature doffs her trim and hides her shame under snow in sympathy with her Maker.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 30–34Nightingale, moon and night scenery as setting for solitary musing.read · scan
- p. 72Woods, willows and echoes mourn the dead shepherd.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 239–240Country birds and spring groves are company in melancholy and make solitary places desirable.read · scan
William Collins, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 477–478Rocks, woods, streams and echoes answer the passions' music.read · scan
William Cowper, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 533–535Felled poplars and a departed blackbird mourn the loss of a beloved grove.read · scan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Tragedy of Faust, Part IVol. 19
- p. 48–49Sunset scene of vales, mountains and ocean stirs his longing.read · scan
- p. 140–142Faust thanks the Spirit for glorious nature as his realm, kindred living tribes, and solitude that reveals himself to himself.read · scan
- p. 167–169Faust delights in walking through vales, rocks, fountains and spring stirring in the pines, while Mephistopheles feels only wintry frost.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 28–30Natural scenery of dawn, thorn, birds and snow is used to picture the beloved.read · scan
- p. 109–110Autumn decay and coming spring mirror Maria's farewell; nature sickens at her departure.read · scan
- p. 192–194Spring's flowers, birds and beasts are contrasted with the lover's sadness; winter suits his gloom.read · scan
- p. 384–386Hills, flowers, birds and seasons are called on to join in mourning the dead friend.read · scan
- p. 398–399Blooming banks and singing birds contrast with the lover's grief.read · scan
- p. 400–401Natural scenery contrasts with, and mirrors, human sorrowread · scan
- p. 453–455Storms and seas mirror the lover's fear.read · scan
- p. 467–469Spring, summer and autumn scenery frames the lover's feeling.read · scan
- p. 480–482Scenery of stream, moonlight and northern lights sets the mood.read · scan
- p. 501–503Dawn, blossoming woods and animals mirror joy, and the changing seasons ground the argument for inconstancy.read · scan
- p. 518–520Flowers, birds and spring are blest for being near the beloved.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 412–413Moonlit lake and a night rainbow described as a strange natural wonder as the conspirators gather.read · scan
- p. 449–451The fisher expects the storm and mountains to revolt against the deed of aiming at a child.read · scan
William Wordsworth, Prefaces to Various Volumes of PoemsVol. 39
- p. 271Men's passions in rural life are bound up with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.read · scan
- p. 281Man and nature are adapted to each other; the mind mirrors nature's fairest properties.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 595The glory once seen in meadow, grove and stream has passed from the earth, though spring rejoices.read · scan
- p. 598–599Loves brooks, clouds and flowers even more, as they give thoughts deep in the heart.read · scan
- p. 600–602The heart leaps at a rainbow; natural piety binds the days of life together.read · scan
- p. 604–606Joyous spring scenes of birds, stream, snow retreating and ploughboy contrast with the Peele Castle sea calm and storm.read · scan
- p. 612–614Ruth finds solace in fields and greenwood and does not blame nature for her suffering.read · scan
- p. 615–617Michael's love of hills and fields is bound to his memories of hardship, skill and courage.read · scan
- p. 631–633Autumn scenery of Yarrow, its sunshine, forest hues and flowing stream, fosters contemplation and a mind free from care.read · scan
- p. 635Wye's cliffs, orchards and woods are described in rapt detail; nature has consoled the poet in the din of towns.read · scan
- p. 635–639Nature never betrays the heart that loved her; she leads from joy to joy and shields us from the world's evil.read · scan
- p. 658–659The hare, lark and woods embody carefree joy contrasted with the poet's mood.read · scan
- p. 676–678Absorbed in getting and spending, we see little in Nature that is ours and are out of tune with sea and winds.read · scan
- p. 678–680Nature scarcely heeds the wrong of felled ancient trees; mountains and pastures remain.read · scan
James Hogg, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 763–766Birds, flowers and the evening scene share in love's joy.read · scan
Sir Walter Scott, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 754–755Sunset, swans, hind and hart, and woodlark pair off, serving as a natural image of reunion.read · scan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 728–729Nature lives only in our life; we receive but what we give.read · scan
- p. 730Joy gives a new earth and heaven; colours and melodies flow from within.read · scan
Thomas Moore, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 816–818The valley's charm lies not in scenery but in loved friends who enhance nature's beauty.read · scan
Leigh Hunt, Deaths of Little ChildrenVol. 27
- p. 286The grave and landscape give a maternal aspect to nature's kindness.read · scan
Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of ImaginationVol. 27
- p. 292–293Love of nature adds a precious seeing and hearing; brooks, stars and birds speak to the imaginative.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 53Serene autumn morning scenery of the Adda, mountains and vineyards, contrasted with human distress.read · scan
- p. 280–281Description of a beautiful Lombard dawn sky, which Renzo is too preoccupied to enjoy.read · scan
- p. 546A beautiful sky and abundant untended fruit contrast with human desolation.read · scan
- p. 550Wild weeds overrun Renzo's abandoned vineyard, nature reclaiming cultivated ground without man's help, described in detail.read · scan
- p. 579Oppressive, stormy sky, heat, and stillness of nature that seem to weigh on every living thing.read · scan
- p. 612Renzo delights in the rain's coolness and the revived grass and leaves, feeling a relenting of nature.read · scan
- p. 614–615The changing rain, dawn and morning freshness are described as they revive his energy.read · scan
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household TalesVol. 17
- p. 87The sea grows black and stormy as her demands grow, signalling disorder.read · scan
- p. 88–89Storm and darkening sea mirror the growing presumption of her demands.read · scan
- p. 89–90The storm, sea and sunrise mirror the wife's unnatural presumption.read · scan
- p. 175–176The girl calls on the wind to blow Conrad's hat away, commanding natural forces to guard her secret.read · scan
Lord Byron, ManfredVol. 18
- p. 415He sees the beauty of the visible world but cannot love it; the shepherd's natural music.read · scan
- p. 443–445Manfred prefers the night's starry loveliness to the face of man, and learns another world's language from it.read · scan
George Gordon, Lord Byron, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 799–801The Rhine's enchanted banks would be dearer if the beloved shared them.read · scan
- p. 807A bird's song at the crevice restores his senses and his power to feel and think.read · scan
- p. 809Mountains, lake, isle, flowers and eagle seen from the window, unchanged, both cheer and pain him.read · scan
Michael Faraday, The Forces of MatterVol. 30
- p. 84–85Quotes Shakespeare: the student of nature finds tongues in trees, books in brooks, sermons in stones.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 310Beatrice describes the gloomy ravine, crag and torrent in detail, an ambush setting that mirrors despair.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 846–848Forest pines, still pools and mountain calm are rendered as a peaceful magic circle; nature mirrors and soothes the poet's mind.read · scan
- p. 859–860Spring, ocean, winds and mountains join in sorrow for the dead poet.read · scan
William Cullen Bryant, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1213–1214Nature speaks a varied language, gladness and healing sympathy, teaching the lover of her forms to accept mortality.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity CollegeVol. 5
- p. 26–27Moral law works itself out everywhere; speaking the truth, all nature and living things bear witness and help the speaker.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CirclesVol. 5
- p. 152Emerson invokes nature in passing: the 'sweet of nature is love', 'God in nature', musing in the woods; mainly about moods and friendship.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, NatureVol. 5
- p. 223On perfect Indian Summer days nature judges like a god, shaming religion and heroes and freeing man from city estimates.read · scan
- p. 224Natural objects heal and sober us; we are native to nature and need its scope, which cities cannot give.read · scan
- p. 225Attention to snow, fields, lakes and sunset redeems the day; natural scenes are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.read · scan
Hans Christian Andersen, TalesVol. 17
- p. 269–270The sea, pebbles, shore and changing weather are described, and Eliza learns from the water's constancy.read · scan
- p. 356–357Plants and sparrows are personified in a natural scene of storm and calm, giving a moral.read · scan
- p. 357The forest and evening sky attune people's minds solemnly; the townspeople find the excursion romantic.read · scan
John Stuart Mill, AutobiographyVol. 25
- p. 94Love of rural objects and mountain scenery gave Mill pleasure and relief from depression.read · scan
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 922–923River, lilies and dragon-fly are ruined and then revived by music.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1299–1300The primeval forest and ocean mourn the vanished Acadian farmers, whose lives reflected an image of heaven.read · scan
Giuseppe Mazzini, Byron and GoetheVol. 32
- p. 377The falcon defying the storm and the stork calmly sleeping serve as images of Byron's struggle and Goethe's calm.read · scan
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleVol. 29
- p. 261Enjoys the clear atmosphere, glorious sunset and charm of living in open air on the mountain.read · scan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 973–975Night flowers, meteors and lily mirror the lover's intimacy.read · scan
- p. 1041–1043Roses, lilies, rivulet and morning sky are alive with the lover's longing and echo his feeling.read · scan
Robert Browning, A Blot in the 'ScutcheonVol. 18
- p. 388–392Tresham feels woods, river and plains conduct him back to the spot, as if nature bids him act.read · scan
Robert Browning, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1097–1098The moon over London and Florence is described in its phases, transfigured.read · scan
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the MastVol. 23
- p. 104–105Desolate island and bay give a melancholy solitary setting.read · scan
- p. 136Dana describes the grand, solitary coast of San Juan and the Pacific, whose scenery restores his better feelings.read · scan
- p. 326–327Still sea, steady trade-wind and tropical stars form the scene of contemplation.read · scan
Walt Whitman, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1413–1414Spring landscape of violets, wheat and orchards contrasts with the passing coffin.read · scan
Matthew Arnold, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1126–1128Moonlit night scenery of shore and hills.read · scan
Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic RacesVol. 32
- p. 146–147All nature is enchanted and fruitful as imagination in these tales.read · scan
- p. 157Romantic element includes life of forests and feeling for nature.read · scan
Frank Aretas Haskell, The Battle of GettysburgVol. 43
- p. 353–354Beautiful fields of grain, corn and orchards are now desolate, trampled and scored by shot and shell.read · scan
- p. 414Nature's loom heals the battlefield; spring and harvest will restore the slopes in higher perfection.read · scan
Robert Louis Stevenson, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1212–1213Longing for the highlands, hills, meadows, starry valley, winds and rivers where life and death pass.read · scan
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