Quotes About Nature

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced