William Cowper Quotes on Nature
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Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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But Conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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A hat not much the worse for wear.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
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Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
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Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.