Quotes About Nature

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.