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Herman Melville Quotes about Nature

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville
Nature, Travel, Home
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

Nature is nobody's ally.

Herman Melville
Nature, Allies
Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.63, Kent State University Press

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Herman Melville
Nature, Law
Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.9, Northwestern University Press

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Herman Melville
Wisdom, Nature, Learning
Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.326, Herman Melville

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

Herman Melville
Nature, Orange, Rainbow
1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

If not against us, nature is not for us.

Herman Melville
Nature, Ifs
Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.246

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