Quotes About Nature

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Turtle makes all men equal.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit