Victor Hugo Quotes about Nature

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Spring, Heart

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

Beauty, Nature, Garden

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Victor Hugo

Mother, Dream, Nature

Victor Hugo (1845). “The Rhine”, p.128

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Victor Hugo

Art, Nature, Men

Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Animal, Men

"The Alps and Pyrenees".

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Eye, Animal

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Men, Sea

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

Victor Hugo

Nature, Ignorance, Mean