Top 100 Nature Man Quotes

#1. I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Man Ray

Nature Man Quotes #2952
#2. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.

Frances Perkins

Nature Man Quotes #3650
#3. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

William Ellery Channing

Nature Man Quotes #4265
#4. In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

Nature Man Quotes #5073
#5. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Howard Thurman

Nature Man Quotes #5728
#6. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

William Beebe

Nature Man Quotes #7147
#7. Political rule is so natural and necessary to the human race that it cannot be withdrawn without destroying nature itself; for the nature of man is such that he is a social animal.

Robert Bellarmine

Nature Man Quotes #7305
#8. For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Blaise Pascal

Nature Man Quotes #7981
#9. Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

George Mason

Nature Man Quotes #8482
#10. Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Camille Paglia

Nature Man Quotes #11378
#11. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Man Quotes #12293
#12. A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature Man Quotes #14599
#13. I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!

Anton Szandor LaVey

Nature Man Quotes #15814
#14. Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature

Johanna Lindsey

Nature Man Quotes #16201
#15. Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Jules Michelet

Nature Man Quotes #17414
#16. Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.

Kurt Vonnegut

Nature Man Quotes #18063
#17. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.

Filson Young

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#18. Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.

Mary Beth Whitehead

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#19. It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

Leo Tolstoy

Nature Man Quotes #22945
#20. That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

William Osler

Nature Man Quotes #23404
#21. It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

Swami Vivekananda

Nature Man Quotes #23795
#22. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Bertrand Russell

Nature Man Quotes #24155
#23. Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.

Mario Botta

Nature Man Quotes #25436
#24. The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

Nature Man Quotes #25460
#25. The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Algernon Sidney

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#26. And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Joseph Glanvill

Nature Man Quotes #26762
#27. Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

George A. Smith

Nature Man Quotes #28318
#28. Mankind is immortal
in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature
but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in
death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,
one and one make a brand new one.

Rose A. Zimbardo

Nature Man Quotes #31017
#29. There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature Man Quotes #31033
#30. You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.

S R Nathan

Nature Man Quotes #31232
#31. Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Samuel Rutherford

Nature Man Quotes #32299
#32. There are at bottom but two possible religions
that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

James Anthony Froude

Nature Man Quotes #33117
#33. Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

Joy Adamson

Nature Man Quotes #34021
#34. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

David Daiches

Nature Man Quotes #34707
#35. Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

Billy Graham

Nature Man Quotes #35996
#36. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Alan Villiers

Nature Man Quotes #38318
#37. Deep within the human constitution lie written laws of nature that should guide man in the conduct of his life.

Herbert M. Shelton

Nature Man Quotes #38461
#38. A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature Man Quotes #39184
#39. Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

Nature Man Quotes #41398
#40. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

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#41. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Aristotle.

Nature Man Quotes #43096
#42. Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature Man Quotes #44041
#43. Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Frances Hardinge

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#44. Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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#45. Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature Man Quotes #44325
#46. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

Michel De Montaigne

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#47. Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

Nature Man Quotes #45279
#48. The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

David Gemmell

Nature Man Quotes #45768
#49. The sky is an enormous man.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Nature Man Quotes #45781
#50. As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.

John Shelby Spong

Nature Man Quotes #47511
#51. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

David O. McKay

Nature Man Quotes #49230
#52. The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Stanley Ellin

Nature Man Quotes #49709
#53. The good man is the friend of all living things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nature Man Quotes #49767
#54. War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

C.E.M. Joad

Nature Man Quotes #49788
#55. To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Friedrich Schiller

Nature Man Quotes #50556
#56. Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature Man Quotes #50882
#57. Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

An Abundance Of Katherines By John Green

Nature Man Quotes #51673
#58. When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.

Emma Goldman

Nature Man Quotes #52000
#59. Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Joseph Butler

Nature Man Quotes #52471
#60. Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.

Erich Fromm

Nature Man Quotes #52750
#61. You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Edwin Louis Cole

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#62. If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

Gautama Buddha

Nature Man Quotes #53540
#63. I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

Ashton Kutcher

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#64. Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man.

Muhammad Ali

Nature Man Quotes #54896
#65. All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Hans Arp

Nature Man Quotes #55512
#66. In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

Robert Breault

Nature Man Quotes #57932
#67. Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Nature Man Quotes #58505
#68. Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.

Aleister Crowley

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#69. Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.

Gudjon Bergmann

Nature Man Quotes #59100
#70. The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Bruno Rossi

Nature Man Quotes #59232
#71. If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

John Fire Lame Deer

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#72. I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Robert Boyle

Nature Man Quotes #60370
#73. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

Henry Beston

Nature Man Quotes #60724
#74. A woman should occasionally be babied enough to show her the man had affection, but beyond that she should be treated firmly. These tough women said that it worked with them.
All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength.

Malcolm X

Nature Man Quotes #62012
#75. Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.

Charlotte Bronte

Nature Man Quotes #62442
#76. A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

Bertrand Russell

Nature Man Quotes #62644
#77. If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. ... during the week.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nature Man Quotes #62780
#78. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.

D. James Baker

Nature Man Quotes #63443
#79. The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Anatole France

Nature Man Quotes #63579
#80. Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.

Max Stirner

Nature Man Quotes #66233
#81. Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging.

George R R Martin

Nature Man Quotes #66669
#82. If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

Nature Man Quotes #66789
#83. Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

Frederick Soddy

Nature Man Quotes #67548
#84. I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Aaron Siskind

Nature Man Quotes #68692
#85. To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY.

John Wesley

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#86. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.

John Steinbeck

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#87. So the man who restrains himself within the bounds set by nature will not notice poverty; the man who exceeds these bounds will be pursued by poverty however rich he

Seneca.

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#88. The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Nicholas Of Cusa

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#89. Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.

Blaise Pascal

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#90. Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

Ben Jonson

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#91. Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Mark Twain

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#92. Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

Horace Mann

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#93. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

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#94. Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Paracelsus

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#95. How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nature Man Quotes #82592
#96. Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#97. What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Euripides

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#98. Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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#99. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#100. Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

Hartley Coleridge

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