Quotes about Nature
Man by Nature desires to know.
- Aristotle
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
- Aristotle
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
- Henry David Thoreau
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50
- Terry James
The nature of rumor is known to all.
- Tertullian