The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Bliss Carman
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy - Isaac Newton

  2. Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow? - Annie Dillard

  3. When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough. - Hediger

  4. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more - George Gordon Byron

  5. The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. - Robinson Jeffers

More Quotes By Bliss Carman
  1. The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

  2. We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

  3. A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  4. Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

  5. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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