Quotes About Nature

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Man must become better and more evil.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.