Quotes About Nature

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Man is a robot with defects.

A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.