Quotes About Nature

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

A man agrees with god as a raindrop agrees with the storm

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

There is a dog in every man.

Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

Man is a biped without feathers.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.