Quotes About Nature

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.