Quotes About Nature

All men desire by nature to know.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.