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Mark Twain Quotes about Nature

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain
Nature, Inspiration, Learning

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Nature
Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.317, Univ of California Press

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain
Nature, Men, Chastity
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Mark Twain
Nature, Men, Humanity
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Mark Twain
Nature, Animal, Men
Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Mark Twain
Dream, Nature, Eye
Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Mark Twain
Nature, Rainbow, Forget
Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere”

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Mark Twain
Nature, Miracle
Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Mark Twain
Nature, Turns, Seasons
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

Mark Twain
Nature, Grace, Passing Away
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4864, Delphi Classics

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