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Alexander Pope Quotes about Nature

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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

Nature, Tree, Robes

Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.574, Oxford University Press

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Life, God, Nature

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Beauty, Nature, Conceited

Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.44

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Nature, Tongue, Advantage

"A Selection from the Poetry of Alexander Pope".

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Art, Nature, Literature

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Art, Nature, Genius

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1787). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.265

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

Daughter, Nature, Light

Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.152, Lulu.com

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Nature, Children, Science

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.403

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

Nature, Exercise, Science

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.239

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

Nature, Eye, Angel

An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

Nature, Atoms, Next

Alexander Pope (1828). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. With Notes Illustrative of the Grammatical Construction, Designed as a Text-book for Parsing”, p.26

[T]hro this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Natures Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

Nature, Ocean, Eye

Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Nature, Men, Use

Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Nature, Science, Night

"Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton" l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Nature, Children, Law

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 275

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Nature, School, Mazes

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 26

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