Quotes About Nature

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.