best quotations about
Nature |
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Quotations
 | Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 16 likes |
 | Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 14 likes |
 | I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 9 likes |
 | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 8 likes |
 | Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 6 likes |
 | Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 6 likes |
 | If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 6 likes |
 | For me, everything in nature is mathematics. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | Nature is the art of God. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 5 likes |
 | It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 4 likes |
 | Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 4 likes |
 | Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 4 likes |
 | Fear is the mother of all gods. Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 4 likes |
 | Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 3 likes |
 | This world is a great banquet where nature invites all living beings, provided that the guests eat each other. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The farmer may be the only kind of man who does not like the countryside and never admires nature. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 3 likes |
 | Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
| Nature has four great scenes – the seasons – and always the same actors: the sun, the moon and the stars. But it constantly changes the audience. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
| ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes |
 | Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 2 likes |
 | Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 2 likes |
 | If God is not Nature herself, He is certainly the nature of Nature, and is the soul of the Soul of the world, if He is not the soul itself. |
 | Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. |
 | If only we could know, boss, what the stones, the flowers, the rain say! They may shout, they may shout at us, and we may not listen. |
 | The Amen of nature is always a flower. |
 | Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. |
| My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. |
 | We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. |
 | Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. |
 | Nature has no history. |
 | A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. |
 | He who understands nature walks close with God. |
 | Nature is a book that is always open, and the wind turns its pages. |
 | How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! |
 | This is happy place; little squirrels live here and play. |
| I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people. |
| Nature never breaks her own laws. |
Latin Quotes
 | Nature, the mistress of art. Natura, artis magistra. 41 likes |
| Nature abhors a vacuum. Natura abhorret a vacua. 27 likes |
| Nature does nothing in vain. Natura nihil fit in frustra. 20 likes |
| Nature is God in all things. Natura est deus in rebus. — Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600, Italian monk & philosopher 20 likes |
| Nature is the greatest in the smallest things. Natura in minima maxima. 15 likes |
| Nature does not make jumps. Natura non facit saltus. (meaning: natural things and properties change gradually) 14 likes |
 | War of all against all. Bellum omnium contra omnes. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher (a description to human existence in the state of nature) |
Quotes in Verse
 | The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing. |
Ancient Greek
| The human life is governed by nature and laws. Άπας ό βίος των ανθρώπων φύσει και νόμοις διοικείται. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 16 likes |
 | According to law, there are many gods; according to nature, only one. Κατά νόμον είναι πολλούς Θεούς, κατά δε φύσιν ένα. — Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 15 likes |
| Nature does nothing without purpose or in vain. Η φύσις μηδέν μήτε ατελές ποιεί μήτε μάτην. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 14 likes |
| In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Εν πάσι γαρ τοις φυσικοίς ενεστί τι θαυμαστόν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
| Nature does not make leaps. Η φύσις ουδέν ποιεί άλματα. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | No form of Nature is inferior to Art. For the arts merely imitate natural forms Ουκ έστι χείρων ουδεμία φύσις τέχνης. Και γαρ αι τέχναι τας φύσεις μιμούνται. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations XI, 10 6 likes |
 | Nature is wont to hide herself. Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεί. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
Proverbs
 | When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard. — American Indian proverb ‐ Lakota 3 likes |
