14 Robert Burns Quotes on Nature

Robert Burns quotes on nature

2. Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle!

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

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

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

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

17. Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem.

18. Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom.

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

34. Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

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

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

52. Oh, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That's sweetly played in tune.

54. Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care! Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn! Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed never to return.

68. Nae man can tether time or tide.