Quotes About Nature

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Humanity is the sin of God

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.