Quotes About Nature

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

The man who walks with Henslow.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Running should be free, man.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.