Quotes About Nature

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.