Quotes about Nature
The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.
- Phillips Brooks
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
- Herbert Hoover
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
- Confucius
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
- Ayn Rand
One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.
- Confucius
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
- Karl Barth
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
- Cicero
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
- St. Augustine
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
- Tertullian