Quotes About Nature

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!