Quotes About Nature

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.