Quotes About Nature

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Vaster is Man than his works.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

Man is a child of his environment

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.