Nature Quotes
Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.
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"Nature alone is eternal, true, and divine."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Nature is not something external to man; it is he himself."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The human species is the highest form of nature."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Nature teaches us the laws of harmonious living."Comte, Auguste
"Nature provides infinite lessons for those who observe carefully."Comte, Auguste
"Millions and millions of us, in these hot, rank, steaming, grieving mobs, the struggling, confused herds of human being in this earth, how few of us ever really feel the sun on our faces!"James, William
"Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a place of things more or less holding the same, and where the relations that obtain are pretty constant."James, William
"Nature itself is not fixed and finished but is actively in process."Dewey, John
"The true law of the universe is that the same energy exists under various manifestations."Spencer, Herbert
"Nature has no principles; she furnishes us the facts and we erect the principles."Spencer, Herbert
"The phenomenal world exists only through the unceasing action of forces."Spencer, Herbert
"Life is preserved by the destruction of other life."Spencer, Herbert
"Nature alone is divine, and it is divine only as nature."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The divine is nothing other than nature idealized."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Nature is the only book written by the hand of the Almighty."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Spirit is merely nature become conscious."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"To understand nature is to understand ourselves."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."Bentham, Jeremy
"Sensibility is the capacity to be affected by pleasure and pain."Bentham, Jeremy
"Nature exists for the benefit of all humanity, not just the wealthy few."Marx, Karl
"Nature operates by laws that human societies must also obey."Comte, Auguste
"In nature we find the exemplar of all rational order."Comte, Auguste
"The capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant."Mill, John Stuart
"Nature reveals to us the secrets of existence if we but observe with open eyes."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The natural world is the text in which divine wisdom is written."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The belly does not listen to advice."Nietzsche, Friedrich
"The senses, being immersed in the infinite, are infinite."James, William
"Hinder not our tares; gather them, and it shall be revealed what is the true nature of things."James, William
"All natural goods are connected with experience by relations of cause and effect."James, William
"Flowers fade, but the fragrance remains."Kierkegaard, Søren