nature Quotes

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.