William WordsworthThinkers

Nature is a pedagogical agent, a teacher or a guide, whose teaching leads beyond nature.

Nature is an effective image of the lost mother (wordsworth's own mother died and he struggled to get over it). It is referred to with a capital-n such that it might love one back and serve as a guide and guardian to sustain oneself.

Nature is at one and the same time an inspiration and a restraint on man. As an impute, she inspires the human mind... as a law, she restrains and chastens man's thoughts and emotions.

Nature is both healer and preserver and the city is such that the life of ease and comfort has given way to dissolution.

Nature is both human nature and objective nature, both being characterized by claims of benevolence and moral integrity.

Nature is conscious and intent upon making individuals feel the power of her influence, and if we are passive or indifferent in her presence we are of little worth.

Nature is independent and exemplary, and in poetry man and nature adapt to one another, with nature no longer meaning human nature, as it did in the eighteenth century. It now takes on divine attributes, whose imitation in art leads to a transformation of man.

Nature is part and parcel of God and a manifestation of God.

Nature is portrayed as necessarily both nurturing and authoritative.

Nature is reality minus death' in that it is invulnerable even in the face of loss.

Nature is the breath of God.

Nature is the occasion of thought, but the mind is always the object of thought.

Nature is the ultimate source of inspiration for creating poetry.