Nature & World Sayings

The essence of human nature is to be social.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Desecrate the earth and father it with horror.

The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Thinking perhaps begins there.

Hold! Hold! For by the Splendour of God, I have taken possession of my kingdom; the earth of England is in my two hands.

The problem with modernity is that it has removed us from our natural environment.

The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

The sun never sets on my anger.

If a man has no way to control his desires, he is like a fish in a dry rut, waiting for the north wind to blow the water into it.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

The nature of man is evil; his goodness is acquired.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Let the Muslims have the coast and the Franks the mountains.

The sea is a great lord, and it does not suffer the existence of any other lords.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.