Quotes About Nature

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

All men are born good.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.