Quotes About Nature

I can still remember my first experience of standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon and looking into it. It was so awesome, it took a fair amount of restraint to prevent me from jumping into it, because I was certain I could fly.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

Man is a bad animal.

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.