Quotes About Nature

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.