Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Nature abhors disorder; every organ, every bone serves a purpose."
Georges Cuvier
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"The laws of nature are written in a language older than human speech."
Georges Cuvier
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"Nature does not proceed by leaps, but through countless small variations that accumulate over time."
Hugo de Vries
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"Variation is not an imperfection in nature, but its greatest perfection."
Hugo de Vries
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"Nature's laboratory is far more creative than the minds of men."
Hugo de Vries
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"Variation within constancy is the rhythm that underlies all existence."
Hugo de Vries
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"Variation within species reveals that nature abhors both perfection and stagnation."
Hugo de Vries
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"Man's place in nature is neither the highest nor the lowest, but somewhere in between."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"A man is as much a part of nature as any other creature that lives upon the earth."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Nature's way of saying hello is to slap you in the face."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Nature is not cruel, blindly neutral, or just."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Nature never wears the same expression twice."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The universe, so far as we know it, is a wonderful and complex system."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Nature does not proceed by leaps."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Variety is the spice of nature's creation."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Nature repeats itself in endless variation."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The natural world is the greatest book ever written."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"Life is a continuous symphony of relationships."
Carolus Linnaeus
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"The fossil record is nature's autobiography written in stone."
Richard Owen
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"Each species represents a unique solution to the problem of existence."
Richard Owen
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"Natural selection acts not upon the individual but upon the variations that heredity presents."
August Weismann
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"Adaptation demonstrates nature's infinite capacity for modification and improvement."
August Weismann
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"Every structure we observe in nature represents a solution to environmental challenges."
August Weismann
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"Life's diversity springs from the endless interplay of heredity and environment."
August Weismann
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"The complexity of life is not evidence of design but of deep time and selection."
August Weismann
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"Selection operates silently, efficiently, and without regard for suffering or sorrow."
August Weismann
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"Natural selection explains the beauty and horror of the natural world."
August Weismann
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"The struggle for existence has crafted every organ, every instinct, every capacity."
August Weismann
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"Nature selects for immediate advantage; long-term consequences are irrelevant to evolution."
August Weismann
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"Each species represents a unique solution to the problem of survival."
August Weismann