Quotes About Nature

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.