Quotes About Nature

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.