It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over nature.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)

Untrue,as we all can see painfully nowadays (floods,droughts and so on)
and will see in the future as well.
Nature is about to strike back and is going to take mastery
over man if we go on in that way.

It is the power of thought that gives man some power over some parts of Nature.

Nature, however, is incapable of thought, and therefore pays no attention to man whatsoever.

Nature does what nature does regardless of our existence.

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A great many people will think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~ William James ~

hi everyone

Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805–75, Danish poet, novelist, and writer of fairy tales. Reared in poverty, however educated, he left Odense at 14 for Copenhagen.

Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed.

With his first book of fairy tales, Eventyr (1835), he eventually found fame.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian.

But the children of the sun sang in louder strains in praise of the mind of man, which can span the sea as with a yoke, can level mountains, and fill up valleys. It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over nature.

Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women and many of his stories are interpreted as references to his sexual grief.

Uriaha Heep : some scholars believe Heep's mannerisms and physical attributes to be based on Hans Christian Andersen

Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield
Uriah's face was quite as cadaverous as it had looked in the window, though in the grain of it there was that tinge of red which is sometimes to be observed in the skins of red-haired people. It belonged to a red-haired person—a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older—whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep. He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise

note : incidentally there is a rock band named Uriah Heep aswell.

Well I guess his passion for music had been a life time love affair. After all he once said "where words fail, music speaks".[My rays could not follow them there, but they entered the prison cell and strove to read the writing on the wall ; his last farewell, for where words fail music speaks. But my rays could only reach a few notes ; the greater part was ...] could only find a snippit reveiw on this one, oh well, in a hurry gtg to work.

Shortly before his death, he had consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children

In the United States, statues of Hans Christian Andersen may be found in Central Park, New York .The Ugly Duckling I would imagine.
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the very first feeling I unconsciously had was disagreement as seeing how much we have won the nature but loosing our future generations' land, but then I realized I need to find the source of the quote, on which it was based, its context.