Quotes About Nature

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.