Quotes about Nature
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
— Paulo Coelho
I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
— Pope Francis
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
— Pope Francis
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
— Pope John Paul II
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau