nature Quotes

“It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

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“When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the full belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Everything kills everything else in some way.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“All bad art comes from returning to Life and Nature, and elevating them into ideals.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“I hardly ever take a beast alive that I do not presently turn out again.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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