Elements Quote by William Shakespeare

“Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!”

— William Shakespeare

HIS PRESENCE LENT A RADIANCE SO SUBLIME NATURE MIGHT SAY TO ALL THE WORLD THIS WAS A MAN

— Anonymous

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

“They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by…

— Jack London

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…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and…

— William Faulkner

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable…

— Thomas Carlyle

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living…

— Victor Hugo

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately…

— Jack London

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

— Zhuangzi

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London