Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Succession and regeneration are nature's answer to death's finality."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"In the observation of nature lies the foundation of all true knowledge."
Johann Tetens
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"In nature's designs we discover principles of order and harmony applicable to human affairs."
Johann Tetens
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"The study of nature reveals the wisdom of the Creator in every leaf and stone."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Man has always worked comparatively little for what he gets and as often as not has done nothing to secure it."
John Maynard Keynes
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"Nature operates according to laws"
Giovanni Vico
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"The cosmos reveals divine order"
Giovanni Vico
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"In the morning, I wake to a world created anew by perception."
George Berkeley
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"Nature itself is a direct communication from divine intelligence."
George Berkeley
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"Nature displays order and beauty that inspire contemplation."
George Berkeley
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"In the study of nature, we discover the mind of the Creator reflected in all things."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Nature, not revelation, is our true guide."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"We are born with certain natural inclinations we cannot deny."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Nature provides all the ethics we require."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Nature abhors the artificial divisions we construct."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Nature provides the model for all artificial systems."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"In nature's patterns, we find echoes of our own deepest yearnings."
Johann Tetens
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"Nature's beauty lies partly in our inability to completely comprehend it."
Johann Tetens
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"The nature of things is nothing other than their coming into being at certain times and in certain ways."
Giovanni Vico
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"The laws of nature are written in the human heart."
Giovanni Vico
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection."
Johann Goethe
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"Nature speaks in symbols and signs."
Johann Herder
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"Nature is the greatest teacher of all."
Johann Herder
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"Nature teaches us lessons that books cannot convey."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Nature is the great teacher of all who have eyes to see."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The highest beauty is that of the order of the universe."
Friedrich Schiller
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"By the laws of nature, certain circumstances are supposed to precede others."
George Berkeley
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"Nature herself has imprinted on the hearts of all the love of themselves."
Hugo Grotius
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"Nature provides all we need."
Hugo Grotius
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"Nature itself is the expression of divine reason."
Christian Wolff