Nature Quotes

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

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"Nature is the supreme architect of all living forms."
August Weismann
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"Life's infinite forms spring from simple, universal principles."
August Weismann
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"Nature tolerates neither incompleteness nor excess."
August Weismann
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"Competition refines; weakness is eliminated; strength prevails."
August Weismann
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"Life's diversity reflects millions of solutions to survival's problems."
August Weismann
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"Selection operates without mercy, but also without malice."
August Weismann
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"Observation reveals that nature is vastly more inventive than human imagination."
August Weismann
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"Every feature of every organism is a answer to a question posed by nature."
August Weismann
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"Adaptation is not improvement toward a distant goal, but adjustment to present conditions."
August Weismann
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"Nature is a relentless sculptor, shaping all creatures to her purposes."
August Weismann
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"All living things are engaged in the same eternal struggle for existence."
August Weismann
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Every species has value and purpose in the great web of life."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Nature is the best teacher of truth and beauty."
Richard Owen
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"In extinction, we find the evidence of transformation."
Richard Owen
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"In nature's diversity lies the proof of infinite wisdom."
Richard Owen
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"The natural world is a cathedral of wonders."
Richard Owen
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"Life's complexity speaks to the genius of creation."
Richard Owen
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"In nature, nothing is wasted, all is transformed."
Richard Owen
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"In extinction lies evidence of transformation and survival."
Richard Owen
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"The natural world speaks in the language of time."
Richard Owen
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"Nature has endowed man with unlimited perfectibility."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Every creature has inherent worth."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Nature is the greatest teacher."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Environmental conditions shape the expression of inherited traits."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"In nature, there is no inheritance without variation."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Variation is nature's gift to those who breed and cultivate."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Selective breeding is humanity's dialogue with nature."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, and the rules are what we call the laws of nature."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Man's place in nature is humble, yet sublime."
Thomas Henry Huxley