Community Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature.…

— Erich Fromm

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than…

— Brian Cowen

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is…

— Miguel

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of…

— Murray Rothbard

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

— Charles Kingsley

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

— Epicurus

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

— Edward Thorndike

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

— Oscar Micheaux

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

— John James Audubon