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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

We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the…

— Gerald R. Ford

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also…

— William Ralph Inge

“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Lord of all…

— Dennis P. Hollinger

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

Man is, above all, he who creates.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live…

— George Wald

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the…

— Rachel Carson

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of…

— James A. Baldwin

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

— Albert Schweitzer

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not…

— John Donne