Learning from nature

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Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

The Table Turned

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Learning from nature

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

The Table Turned

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, I. 15.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables Turned." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 15.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

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Learning from nature Nature

Author

John Burroughs

Source

Time and Change

Genre

Nature writing

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Burroughs, John. "The Gospel of Nature." Time and Change. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Burroughs

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Learning from nature Nature

Author

John Burroughs

Genre

Nature writing

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Syracuse University Press, 2006.