Quotes About Nature

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.