Quotes About Nature

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

In soft regions are born soft men.

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.