Quotes About Nature

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.

Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

Humanity is the cancer of nature.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.