Quotes About Nature

Walking is man's best medicine.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.