Quotes About Nature

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

That absolute pure honesty of the horse, man that's just the greatest thing there is

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.