Quotes About Nature

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.