Nature Of Man Quotes

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Nature, Healing, Tired

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Men, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

  E. F. Schumacher

  Nature, Men, Battle

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

  Maimonides

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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• Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

  Aristotle

  Men, Born

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• The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Human Nature

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• The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Men, Soul

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig

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• A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Roots, Suffering

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

  Max Picard

  Change, Philosophy, Loss

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

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• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Men, Essence

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• It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.

  Louis Bromfield

  Cutting, Animal, Men

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• The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

  James Madison

  Men, Causes, Degrees

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.48, Coventry House Publishing

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• The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

  Steven James

  Men, Restraint, Nobility

  Steven James (2013). “The King: The Bowers Files”, p.26, Penguin

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• The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Believe, Men

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