Quotes About Nature

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Man is no man, but a wolf

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.