Lydia Maria Child - Nature Quotes

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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Lydia Maria Child
Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Lydia Maria Child
Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality.... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

Lydia Maria Child
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Lydia Maria Child
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshipping themselves.

Lydia Maria Child
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Lydia Maria Child