Nature Of Man Quotes

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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  The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Life, Nature

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Nature, Healing, Tired

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Men, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

  E. F. Schumacher

  Nature, Men, Battle

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

  Maimonides

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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• The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

  Xunzi

  Men, Evil, Human Nature

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• Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

  Aristotle

  Men, Born

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• A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Roots, Suffering

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

  Max Picard

  Change, Philosophy, Loss

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

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• Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Said, Toasts

  Julia Quinn (2009). “How to Marry a Marquis”, p.24, Harper Collins

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Men, Wheels

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.165, Bantam

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• What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.

  William J. Duiker

  Powerful, Struggle, Emotional

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• Over time you get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

  Kofi Annan

  Men, Flare Up, Want

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• The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Men, Soul

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig

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• It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

  David Eddings

  Men, Asks

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (2010). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

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