Quotes About Nature

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Every monster was a man first.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

To laugh is proper to man.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse