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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Nature

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson
Nature, Women, Maturity
Letter to John Taylor, 18 Aug. 1763

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Samuel Johnson
Nature, Climate Change, Deviation
Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.43

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Samuel Johnson
Nature, Men, Envy
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.9

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson
Inspirational, Nature, Travel
Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

Samuel Johnson
Nature, Rain, Animal
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.493

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