Quotes about Nature
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
— Joseph Campbell
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
— CS Lewis
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
— Henry Parry Liddon
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
— John Keats
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— DH Lawrence
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
— Albert Schweitzer
When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
— Brigham Young