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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.

    Nature   Moving   Eye  
    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin
  • Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

    Wisdom   Nature   Men  
    Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252
  • Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

    Integrity   Men   Self  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media
  • Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

    Nature   Men   Literature  
  • It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

    Sympathy   Men   Law  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance Press
  • The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

    Nature   Men   Garden  
  • My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

  • Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

    Nature   Men   Masters  
    Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.175, New Directions Publishing
  • Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

    Nature   Acceptance   Men  
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

    Men   Humanity   Over You  
  • Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object.

  • Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

    Nature   Men   Hands  
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.60, Best Books on
  • 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.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

    Country   Struggle   Men  
    "Uncle Vanya". Ply by Anton Chekhov, 1897.
  • There is a great deal of human nature in man.

    Nature   Men   Deals  
    Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    Nature   Men   Earth Day  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • 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.

    Fighting   Men   Culture  
  • If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

    Money   Men   Ties  
    Karl Marx, Martin Milligan (1974). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844”
  • Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

    Sex   Fall   Men  
    Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.29, Canongate Books
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

    Nature   Power   Men  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan
  • Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

    Nature   Men   Battle  
    E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
  • Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind.

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

    1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.
  • Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

    Men   Mixing   World  
    Raymond Williams (2005). “Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays”, p.76, Verso
  • The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

    Men   Bridges   Media  
    "Media as the New Nature" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 14), 1969.
  • Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.

    Art   Passion   Men  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2609, e-artnow
  • Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

    Animal   Reality   Men  
    James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications
  • 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.

    Time   Nature   Fall  
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