Quotes About Nature

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

Why do men go to zoos?