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Quotes About Nature

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.
~ Mason Cooley
Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
~ Matt Ridley
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
~ Matthew Arnold
Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Forest is the best port of the wise man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am the wilderness lost in man.
~ Mervyn Peake
No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
~ Michael Crichton
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
~ Michael Pollan
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
~ Murasaki Shikibu
For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.
~ Myriam Miedzian