Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

"Nature speaks to those who have learned the language of careful observation."
Edmund Husserl
"The body is our general medium for having a world."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The lived body is not an object but a perspective on the world."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The body thinks through its engagement with the world."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Nature is not occult. Nature is obvious."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nature is cruel, and we are cruel; all life is cruel."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Every organism requires an environment."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The conquest of nature becomes the domination of human nature."
Herbert Marcuse
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"In the saving of the earth, a new freedom is achieved."
Martin Heidegger
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"Belonging to a place involves more than physical location."
Martin Heidegger
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"To preserve the earth means to dwell upon it with care."
Martin Heidegger
"The body is our general medium for having a world."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The flesh of the world is what we call existence."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Nature reminds us of what we are beneath our abstractions."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The landscape enters into the being of those who inhabit it."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The body is not merely an object in space; it is the ground of all our engagement with the world."
Edmund Husserl
"The lived body is not an object among objects but the subject through which all objectivity appears."
Edmund Husserl
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Walter Benjamin
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"Nature teaches us more than any theory."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Nature operates beyond our comprehension."
Paul Feyerabend
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"We carve nature at its joints, but the joints are partly of our own making."
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Nature is a mode of synthesis and an expression of aesthetic experience."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Creative novelty is an initiative of occasions in the creative advance of nature."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nature is creative in its essence. It is always striving toward something new."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Every organism requires an environment to sustain itself and give it meaning."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The universe is a creative process of actualization of all that is possible."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The visible world and the invisible world are not separate; they are interwoven."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The flesh of the world connects all things in a web of meaning."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The flesh of the world is visible and invisible at once."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty