Top 1200 Man And Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

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.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

Modifying ourselves is a natural process because we are a product of nature and what we do is a product of nature. Therefore, if one day we have three time bigger brain and two hearts instead of one (because one is not enough) then this is all part of nature.

Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.

Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do less and accomplish more; do nothing and accomplish everything is nature's secret to the miracle of life.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.