Quotes About Nature

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

Men meet; mountains, never.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.