Quotes About Nature

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

But the surface of the Earth was meant for man. He wasn't meant to live in a hole in the ground.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .