Quotes about Nature
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
- Henry David Thoreau
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
- Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
- Henry David Thoreau