It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
~ Albert Einstein
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
~ C. S. Lewis
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Robert South
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
~ Edward Thorndike
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
~ José Ortega Y Gasset
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
~ Thomas À Kempis
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
~ Joni Mitchell
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
~ H. G. Wells
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
~ John Constable
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
~ Joseph Smith
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
~ Orison Swett Marden
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
~ Tacitus
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
~ Martin Buber
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
~ Richard Owen
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
~ Alexander Pope
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
~ E. F. Schumacher
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
~ Joseph Addison
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Nature made the fields and man the cities.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
~ William Godwin
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
~ John Ruskin
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
~ Leon Trotsky
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~ William Gilbert
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
~ Jean Ingelow
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
~ Alice Meynell
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
~ Standing Bear
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
~ James G. Frazer
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
~ Jacque Fresco
