Quotes About Nature

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.