Quotes About Nature

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.