Quotes About Nature

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.