Activity Quote by John Burroughs

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man…

— H. P. Blavatsky

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel…

— Frederick Douglass

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

— Edwin Way Teale

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved.…

— Shoghi Effendi

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

— Mencius

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely…

— Andrew Carnegie

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is…

— Mencius

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

— Swami Vivekananda

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

— Jostein Gaarder