Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

18018 quotes

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"Nature operates according to laws that the mind can discover."
Ibn Sina
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"Nature speaks to those who have learned its language."
Ibn Sina
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"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of meaning and beauty."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Poverty and abundance create different realities for how people think."
Sendhil Mullainathan
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"Nature is God's first book, written in the language of cause and effect."
Ibn Sina
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"Nature rewards those who study it with understanding."
Ibn Sina
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"Nature offers lessons in balance and sustainability."
James Mirrlees
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"Nature's complexity mirrors human society's challenges."
James Mirrlees
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"Nature provides resources that could lift millions out of poverty if we distributed them fairly."
Abhijit Banerjee
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"Nature's bounty should belong to humanity, not just to those wealthy enough to buy access to it."
Abhijit Banerjee
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"Climate change represents a market failure of historic proportions that requires collective action."
Jean Tirole
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"Economic growth means little if it comes at the cost of environmental destruction."
Jean Tirole
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"Nature provides lessons about efficiency and adaptation."
Vernon Smith
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"Nature is the ultimate teacher of efficiency."
Vernon Smith
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"The natural world teaches us about sustainability better than any theory."
Abhijit Banerjee
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"The economy is not a machine with levers to pull but an ecosystem with feedback that often surprises us."
James Mirrlees
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"Nature teaches us that growth requires both light and darkness."
Stefania Albanesi
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"In the garden of life, both weeds and flowers have lessons to teach."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Nature has given us certain instincts that markets can either reinforce or overcome."
Vernon Smith
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"Nature doesn't have an economy. The economy is embedded in nature."
Kate Raworth
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"We are not separate from nature. We are part of it."
Kate Raworth
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"The economy should nurture life, not destroy it."
Kate Raworth
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"Nature provides enough; the problem is how we distribute what we have."
Abhijit Banerjee
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"Nature is not a resource to be exploited; it's a relationship to be maintained."
Abhijit Banerjee
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Raj Patel
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"Nature designed survival; humans must design fairness."
Eric Maskin
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"If you want people to care about the environment, make the positive behavior the default, not the exception."
Richard Thaler
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"Nature whispers what civilization has forgotten to hear."
Raj Patel