Quotes about Nature
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Joseph Addison
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
- Aristotle
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
- Herbert Hoover
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
- Cicero
Man is a piece of the universe made alive
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
- John Bunyan
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson