Quotes About Nature

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

There's too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.