Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Observation of nature teaches more than the reading of sacred texts."
Xenophanes
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"Nature is the supreme teacher."
Aristophanes
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"Nature is the source of all healing."
Aristophanes
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"Night, star-strewn night, that brings all things that shining day drives apart together."
Sappho
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"Rosy-fingered dawn spreads her light across the sea."
Sappho
S
"The dawn breaks with the same indifference whether we greet it with tears or laughter."
Sappho
A
"In everything there is a mixture of everything."
Anaxagoras
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"All things flow from and return to the universal mixture."
Anaxagoras
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"Nature's variety springs from the same fundamental unity."
Anaxagoras
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"The seed of all things contains the pattern of all things."
Anaxagoras
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"Water is the fundamental substance from which all life emerges and develops."
Anaximander
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"We are born of the sea and the sea flows within us still."
Anaximander
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"We are composed of the same substance as the stars above us."
Anaximander
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"Every creature participates in the dance of the boundless."
Anaximander
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"Nature abhors a vacuum; something must always fill the void."
Anaximander
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"All things arise from the infinite void and return to it, completing the eternal cycle."
Leucippus
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"Atoms teach us that all things, however solid, are mostly empty space."
Leucippus
L
"All growth and decay in nature reflects the eternal dance of atoms."
Leucippus
L
"The void is the silent partner in creation, enabling all motion and becoming."
Leucippus
L
"The cosmos is a living expression of atomic necessity and infinite motion."
Leucippus
L
"Motion through void is the eternal condition of atoms and of the universe."
Leucippus
L
"Atoms are eternal, uncreated, indestructible—the true immortals of the universe."
Leucippus
L
"Atoms are the eternal workers, building and destroying all worlds ceaselessly."
Leucippus
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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries."
Euripides
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"The air we breathe is the substance of all things, compressed and rarefied to create the world."
Anaximenes
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"The breath of life connects all living things in a grand tapestry of being."
Anaximenes
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"Density and rarity are but two aspects of the same eternal substance."
Anaximenes
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"The rarefied and the dense are engaged in eternal dialogue through all existence."
Anaximenes
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"Nature abhors neither complexity nor simplicity but employs both as instruments of creation."
Anaximenes
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"The breath of heaven flows through all things, binding existence into unity."
Anaximenes