Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"The struggle for existence is not cruel; it is simply the condition of life."
August Weismann
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"Life's diversity is the product of life's unity refracted through selection."
August Weismann
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"Selection is nature's judge, and adaptation is its verdict."
August Weismann
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"Nature is profligate with variation and ruthless with selection."
August Weismann
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"Nature selects not for virtue, but for reproductive success in the present moment."
August Weismann
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"The organism is built by heredity and modified by environment, but controlled by selection."
August Weismann
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"The persistence of life through change is the greatest mystery of nature."
August Weismann
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"Life's diversity is life's strength, and life's strength is diversity."
August Weismann
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"The environment in which an organism lives determines its form and function over generations."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Needs create organs; disuse causes their diminishment—such is the way of life."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The diversity of life reflects not divine whimsy but adaptive necessity."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The environment does not select; it shapes, through the efforts of living beings themselves."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"Every creature is shaped by the world it inhabits in ways both visible and hidden."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"God is in the details of nature, and we must observe carefully to find Him."
Jan Swammerdam
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"Nature is God's greatest book; we must learn to read it."
Jan Swammerdam
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"In every living thing, there is a story waiting to be read."
Jan Swammerdam
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"Each creature, no matter how small, plays a role in creation's symphony."
Jan Swammerdam
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"The natural world is both teacher and mirror."
Jan Swammerdam
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"In nature, we find both comfort and challenge."
Jan Swammerdam
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"In nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost; everything changes."
Georges Cuvier
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"The smallest creature carries within it the signature of creation."
Georges Cuvier
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"The destruction of species is the erasure of possible worlds."
Georges Cuvier
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"Every creature exists in perfect conversation with its environment."
Georges Cuvier
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"Nature reveals her secrets to those who observe with patience and care."
Marcello Malpighi
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"Nature is the greatest teacher for those willing to learn."
Marcello Malpighi
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"In nature, form follows function with perfect harmony."
Marcello Malpighi
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"The microscopic world mirrors the majesty of the cosmos."
Marcello Malpighi
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"The natural world is a book written in the language of forms."
Marcello Malpighi
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"The natural world is infinitely generous to careful observers."
Marcello Malpighi
"Nature abhors a vacuum."
Robert Hooke