nature Quotes

“And in the development of these Nature chose for a tool not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring...”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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“But Natural Selection, we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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“nature does nothing uselessly.”

― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

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“For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Nature does not work with an end in view. For the eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness which Nature has kindly placed within our reach.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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