Quotes About Nature

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.