10 Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Nature

Rudyard Kipling quotes on nature

1. She has no strong white arms to fold you, But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you - Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.

4. Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.

42. Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

49. Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath.

58. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

65. A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

67. Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

72. Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!

97. They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!

112. Who hath desired the Sea? - the sight of salt water unbounded - The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?