Quotes About Nature

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.