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Quotes About Nature

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
~ Hal Borland
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
~ John Dryden
Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.
~ John Muir
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
~ Denis Diderot
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
~ Erich Fromm
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
~ Gilles Deleuze
Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.
~ Mircea Eliade
I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.
~ Nick Drake
Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
~ Plato
In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals
~ Ricky Gervais
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
~ Albert Pike
No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.
~ Carl Jung
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
~ Peter Kreeft
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
~ Phillips Brooks
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson