Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

"The visible world is sustained by an invisible dimension."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Nature is not deterministic."
Karl Popper
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"Nature is more inventive than our theories about nature."
Paul Feyerabend
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"What seems natural is often just familiar."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The capitalistic society is in harmony with nature."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Nature is our greatest teacher if we listen carefully."
Noam Chomsky
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"Nature's wisdom far exceeds human knowledge."
Noam Chomsky
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"Nature is alive and is always calling for a response."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nature is not cruel, only indifferent, which is far worse."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The study of nature leads inevitably to philosophy."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The boundary between nature and culture is not absolute but relational."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The modern world suffers from a disconnection from nature."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Every natural phenomenon is a window into the nature of consciousness."
Paul Feyerabend
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"We are all, in a sense, experiments in survival, and nature is conducting continuous research on us."
Karl Popper
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"Nature demonstrates principles that human society often ignores."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Nature's not easily caught in a net of words."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Nature is not a state but a process."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"All natural objects are processes, not things."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nature is a theatre of transition, not a museum of static forms."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Our understanding of nature is always filtered through cultural and economic interests."
Noam Chomsky
"Diversity of human cultures is humanity's greatest treasure."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Nature provides the patterns that culture elaborates upon."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Human nature desires simple explanations and simple duties."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The growth of population is limited by the means of subsistence."
John Maynard Keynes
"Nature speaks a language that transcends human culture."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Nature and culture are two languages saying the same things."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The world reveals itself to those who study it with respect."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Nature is the greatest teacher."
Jérémie Bentham
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"There is nothing in the natural world that corresponds to the ideal of the perfectly closed system."
Karl Popper
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"Nature operates according to laws we can understand and predict."
Karl Popper