nature Quotes

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:nature experience science

“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:nature peace dream

“Is it because I haven't been outdoors for so long that I've become so smitten with nature?”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

topic:nature

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:nature philosophy

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:nature living body

“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:nature travel sight

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

topic:life nature learning

“No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:life nature risk

“There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:nature

“When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:nature worth

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