Mark Twain Quotes About Environment

• Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Men, Chastity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Association

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

• It is your human environment that makes climate

  Mark Twain

  People, Humanity, Climate

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation

• It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Cute, Truth

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Rainbow, Forget

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere”

• If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Opportunity, Light

• there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

  Mark Twain

  Teaching, Writing, Character

• When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Weather, Ideas

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

• The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

  Mark Twain

  Silly, Mean, Men

  Mark Twain (1925). “In defense of Harriet Shelley”

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