Quotes About Nature

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

You make me feel like a natural man

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.