Nature Quotes

"We are all waves in the cosmic ocean of existence."

"Modern science says: the sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future."

"To find out about the plants, I had to study them."

"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."

"Looking at nature, it is clear that with increasing geographical range comes ever increasing insignificance."

"There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows."

"The truth is nature is not concerned with human logic."

"There is grandeur in this view of existence that we have derived it from the original few forms."

"Every body of water, no matter how small or apparently insignificant, is a world in itself."

"All animals are conscious, and to varying degrees: from the highest animals down to the very lowest."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps, and therefore, if species have really proceeded from other species by insensibly fine gradations, we ought not to find in that geological formation and in that stratum distinct species."

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

"Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes - this is the law of nature."

"The beauty of nature lies in its complexity and its simplicity."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished in its time."

"Nature's patterns hold the secrets we have been seeking."

"The natural and the social are not separate."

"Biophilia is our capacity to love and connect with all living systems."

"We are entangled with nonhuman others in ways we barely understand."

"We must develop an ethics of care that extends beyond the human."

"The capacity to blush is peculiar to man, and it is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions of the emotions."

"Man bears in his bodily structure a stamp of his lowly origin."

"It would be impossible to imagine any diversity of form and structure without the principle of adaptation."

"Nature teaches us that growth requires periods of apparent stillness."

"Nature is not hidden and does not need to be unveiled."

"We are not separate from nature; we are nature."

"Nature is not a category; it is a practice."

"We are all indigenous to this planet; we have nowhere else to go."

"The world is not for us to conquer; it is for us to live with."

"We must take seriously our commingled materiality with all creatures."