Nature Quotes

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

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"Animals are machines and nothing more."
Descartes, René
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"Nature has no foolish contours."
Descartes, René
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"Nature is infinite; we are finite; and we cannot understand infinity."
Descartes, René
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"Nature never makes jumps."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"All things are connected, as a great chain of being."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"All things are provided by nature; all we need do is learn to use them."
Locke, John
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"Every man is born with the faculty of sensation."
Locke, John
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"Nature itself teaches that to offend against nature is to offend against the law of nature."
Locke, John
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"Nature teaches us the ways of existence."
Avicenna
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"The universe speaks to those who listen."
Avicenna
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"The study of nature reveals the fingerprints of the Divine."
Maimonides
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"The beauty of the natural world inspires awe and contemplation."
Maimonides
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"Nature is not prodigal, yet it is not stingy; it maintains a perfect economy."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Nature produces infinitely many things in infinite ways."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"In the state of nature, the right of each is determined by his power."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"God or Nature acts from the necessity of its own nature alone, and not compelled by any external cause."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The laws of nature are always true and everywhere the same."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"To live is to preserve one's being; this is the primary law of nature."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"There is nothing in nature which is not determined by God to a certain action."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Nature is not chaotic but ordered by infinite wisdom and harmony."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Nature speaks to those who listen carefully."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Nature has made us aware of our own existence, but not of our essence."
Hume, David
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"Nature has no principles. Everything is only habit."
Descartes, René
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"Nature never wears the same expression twice, for her moods are infinite."
Descartes, René
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"Nature never wears one dress long."
Locke, John
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"Nature is the art of God."
Locke, John
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"Nature teaches those who take time to listen."
Al-Ghazali
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"The natural world reflects the wisdom of the Creator."
Al-Ghazali
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"The natural world is a book written by the Divine; we must learn to read it."
Avicenna
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"The natural order of things follows laws as precise as those of mathematics."
Avicenna