Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Creator."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The human heart has its seasons, just as nature does."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Nature is the teacher of all virtue."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf becomes a flower."
Albert Camus
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"The climate of a nation shapes its character."
Montesquieu
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"The laws of commerce are the laws of nature."
Montesquieu
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"The laws of nature are the laws that God has prescribed for all men."
Montesquieu
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"The laws of nature know neither king nor subject."
Montesquieu
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"Nature teaches us that growth requires struggle and change."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain."
Denis Diderot
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"The human spirit sublimates the impulses which nature has implanted in it."
Denis Diderot
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"Nature is never at a loss; she is always equal to herself."
Denis Diderot
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"Nature itself is the greatest teacher of morality."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Nature speaks to those who have learned to listen."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The wind in the willows and the waters of life speak to those who listen with the heart."
André Gide
"I declare that the earth is a divine work, and worthy of all our passion and study."
André Gide
"Nature is a text we must learn to read with love and humility."
André Gide
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"Wherever Confucius goes, he is always under the same sky."
Voltaire
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"Nature reminds us that chaos and order are one and the same."
Albert Camus
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"Nature is indifferent to our hopes; we must create meaning through resistance."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Natural laws are those which derive their force solely from the constitution of our being."
Montesquieu
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"Mountains are chains of liberty; flatlands are fields of despotism."
Montesquieu
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"Nature has made nothing without a purpose."
Denis Diderot
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"Nature speaks to those who listen carefully."
Denis Diderot
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"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Nature is the best teacher of morality."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Nature reveals the divine order that governs all existence."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Nature teaches us profound lessons."
Pierre Corneille
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"Nature reveals divine wisdom."
Pierre Corneille