Quotes About Nature

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Man is on earth as in an egg.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

No man is born without faults.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

The best of men are men at best

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?