Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and so the body abhors imbalance."
Galen
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"The seasons affect the body as surely as they affect the world around us."
Galen
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"Youth is a time of excess heat and moisture; old age of dryness and cold."
Galen
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"Nature provides the remedy; the physician merely facilitates its application."
Galen
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"Climate and geography shape the health and temperament of peoples."
Galen
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"Nature's remedies are more powerful than any concoction created in the laboratory."
Galen
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"The body's natural processes, when understood and respected, guide us toward health."
Galen
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"To live in opposition to nature is to live in opposition to health."
Galen
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"Nature does nothing in vain; every part of the body serves a purpose."
Galen
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"The body's intelligence, if we are wise enough to observe it, guides us toward wellness."
Galen
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"In youth, the body is at war with itself; in age, it seeks peace with its own nature."
Galen
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"Night with stars sprinkled all over it."
Sappho
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"The night air carries the whispers of all who have ever loved."
Sappho
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"Nature's truths are written in stone, metal, and fire."
Herodotus
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"Nature is the physician of diseases, not the doctor."
Hippocrates
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"A life lived according to nature is a life lived in accordance with wisdom."
Hippocrates
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"The seasons teach us that natural cycles of rest and activity are essential to life."
Hippocrates
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"Nature's remedies, properly understood and applied, often exceed human invention."
Hippocrates
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"Nature whispers her secrets only to those patient enough to listen."
Pindar
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"Nature's beauty reveals the infinite creativity of the universal mind."
Pindar
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"Nature teaches patience to those willing to observe her seasons."
Xenophon
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"Every creature has its own usefulness."
Aesop
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"Who can doubt that he who made the hare swift, made the tortoise slow?"
Aesop
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"All diversity in nature arises from differences in atoms and their motion."
Leucippus
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"Nature follows eternal laws of motion and combination."
Leucippus
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"Nature is governed by immutable laws."
Leucippus
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"Egypt is the gift of the Nile."
Herodotus
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"Some flowers bloom only in the darkness; so too do some souls."
Sappho
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"Everything in excess is opposed by nature."
Hippocrates
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"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
Hippocrates