Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more a

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. – H. G. Wells

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Nature

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne

Category:
Nature

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Nature

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. – Sallust

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Life

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey

Category:
Leisure

I scrapbook therefore I am – broke. – Author Unknown

Category:
Scrapbooking

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Loneliness