Quotes About Nature

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Man as a pure animal does not exist

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.