Man Versus Nature Quotes

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you're smart or rich or lucky
Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
But the inner laws of spirit
And the outer laws of nature
No man can — Joni Mitchell

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. — Lord Byron

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
Lyanna — George R R Martin

There are always costs when man alters nature, his own or the world around him. — Tam Linsey

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes. — Samuel Von Pufendorf

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life. — Pliny The Elder

It takes a strong woman to tolerate a weak man. That said, it takes a strong man to tolerate a weak woman, too. — Cathy Burnham Martin

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature. — Maria Montessori

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. — Alan Bleasdale

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals — Swami Vivekananda

Nature attains perfection, but man never does. — Eric Hoffer

There's something animalistic about this man. Something I want to be a part of. Something I want to be included in. He's a force of nature. — Belle Aurora

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23 — Felix Wantang

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. — James D. Carswell

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of the work which makes no difference whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Nature herself makes the wise man rich. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster. — Michael Lewis