Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Nature
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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.
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Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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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.
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Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.
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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!
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They change their skies above them, But not their hearts that roam!
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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?