Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Nature is the greatest teacher; we must learn to listen to it."
Abraham Maslow
"Nature teaches us about cycles, resilience, and the interconnection of all things."
Philip Zimbardo
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"Evolution favored organisms with flexible, learnable behaviors."
John B. Watson
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"The human is nature's most malleable creature."
John B. Watson
"Nature is a perfect poem written by God."
Blaise Pascal
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"The human being is fundamentally an animal adapting to its surroundings through learned responses."
John B. Watson
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"The study of animal behavior illuminates human behavior because we operate on the same fundamental principles."
John B. Watson
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"Sleep, hunger, and sex are the only true drives; all others are learned through conditioning."
John B. Watson
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"We inherit genes but not behavior; behavior is the product of environmental conditioning acting on biological capacity."
John B. Watson
"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator."
Blaise Pascal
"Custom is the law of nature; what nature has instituted custom enforces."
Blaise Pascal
"We should not be astonished at the marvels of nature, but rather at our own ignorance."
Blaise Pascal
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"Nature provides the raw materials; nurture builds the person."
John B. Watson
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"Evolution shaped our basic reflexes; society shapes our behaviors."
John B. Watson
"Nature has a way of healing what we cannot"
Dear Abby
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu
"The snow in winter is the sleep of good earth."
Lao Tzu
"Everything flows out and nothing abides."
Lao Tzu
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"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Ann Landers
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"Nature teaches us patience, we need only observe."
Ann Landers
"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
Blaise Pascal
"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator."
Blaise Pascal
"Let man contemplate nature in her entirety and then turn away from the infinitely small to the infinitely great."
Blaise Pascal
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"Nature is the best teacher if we are willing to learn."
Ann Landers
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"Nature heals what society breaks."
Ann Landers
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu
"The snow falls on the lake and is absorbed; this is the way of the Tao."
Lao Tzu
"Be like water: clear, flowing, formless."
Lao Tzu
"The Master observes the way nature handles growth and loss."
Lao Tzu
"The Tao is like a well: used but never depleted."
Lao Tzu