Quotes About Nature

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?

Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!