nature Quotes

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature greatness

“Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:nature philosophy

“The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds—to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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“Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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