Quotes about Nature
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- CS Lewis
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
- John Keats
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
- DH Lawrence
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
- Albert Schweitzer
When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.
- Brigham Young
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
- CS Lewis
In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.
- CS Lewis
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
- Carl Sagan
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
- Edmund Burke