Sir Thomas Browne Quotes on Nature
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Rich with the spoils of nature.
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We carry with us the wonders, we seek without us: There is all Africa, and her prodigies in us; we are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies, wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endless volume.
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All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar act of coition; It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.
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I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of a horse. It is my temper, & I like it the better, to affect all harmony, and sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
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There is surely a piece of Divinity within us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
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The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the ?quinox?
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.