Quotes About Nature

Teddy wandered amongst the graves. Most of the people in them had died long before his time. Ursula was picking up conkers from the stand of magnificent horse chestnuts at the far end of the churchyard. They were enormous trees and Teddy wondered if their roots had intertwined with the bones of the dead, imagined them curling a path through ribcages and braceleting ankles and fettering wrists. When

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.