Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"The substance of all things breathes with the rhythm of eternal transformation."
Anaximenes
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"The breath of all existence flows through the smallest creatures as through the greatest."
Anaximenes
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"The universe reveals that infinite being manifests through finite forms."
Anaximenes
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"The eternal substance breathes life into all finite things through infinite transformation."
Anaximenes
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"All things come into being from the earth and into the earth all things return."
Xenophanes
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"From the sea all things arise, and to the sea all things return."
Xenophanes
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"In nature's designs, we witness the hand of forces beyond our comprehension."
Xenophanes
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"Nature has given human beings nothing more valuable than time."
Sophocles
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"We must look to the phenomena of nature to understand the nature of mind."
Anaxagoras
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"Nature rewards the observer who approaches with patience and reason."
Anaxagoras
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"Nature does nothing in vain; every phenomenon has a rational cause."
Anaxagoras
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"In the democracy of nature, all creatures have equal voice in determining their fate."
Aristophanes
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"Sweet is the lore which nature brings."
Euripides
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"In nature's infinite complexity, there is always something to discover."
Euripides
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"All creatures emerge from moisture, and in moisture they find their origin."
Anaximander
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"In water lies the seed of all things that breathe and move."
Anaximander
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"Water remembers its ancient origins and seeks always to return to them."
Anaximander
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"In every motion lies the signature of the infinite moving within itself."
Anaximander
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"In all things of nature there is something marvelous."
Democritus
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"Air is the fundamental principle that sustains all life and motion in the cosmos."
Anaximenes
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"To understand nature is to participate in the divine creative act."
Anaximenes
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"Strife and love govern all things"
Empedocles
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"Light and darkness alternate eternally"
Empedocles
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"In the clash of opposites lies the harmony of the universe"
Empedocles
E
"Bitter and sweet, hot and cold, are bound together"
Empedocles
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"We are all one with nature"
Empedocles
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"Sweet is paired with bitter in the world"
Empedocles
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"The world is composed of harmony and discord"
Empedocles
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"The seed contains the tree"
Empedocles
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"There is no void, for void would be nothing."
Parmenides