Quotes About Nature

The man of humanity delights in mountains

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.