Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"The contemplation of nature leads to the contemplation of the Divine."
Avicenna
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"All living things are connected in ways visible and invisible."
Avicenna
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"Nature displays infinite complexity, yet operates according to principle."
Maimonides
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"The more things are perfect, the more they are in nature, and the fewer monstrosities there are among them."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Nature never makes jumps."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"There is no vacuum in nature."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Even in the smallest grain of sand, the entire universe is reflected."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The harmony of the world is best displayed in the diversity of its creatures."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"In the smallest manifestation of nature, we can perceive the infinite."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The universe is infinite in its extent and inexhaustible in its variety."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does the human soul when deprived of purpose."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"God or Nature acts from the same necessity by which it exists."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Things are either determined by God's nature to exist and act, or they are not so determined."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Nature is infinite in perfection and infinite in power."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The contemplation of nature by the mind is itself a form of joy."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Nature is the art of God."
Descartes, René
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"Nature teaches us the deepest truths about existence."
Descartes, René
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"The human being is a part of nature, and nature is the foundation of all knowledge."
Avicenna
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"Nature itself teaches that the strong must not always dominate the weak."
Locke, John
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"The preservation of self is the first law of nature."
Locke, John
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"Nature reveals her secrets only to those who observe with patient attention."
Locke, John
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"Man can neither create nor destroy; he can only alter and combine the matter which nature affords him."
Hume, David
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"Nature reveals the divine through its order and beauty."
Averroes
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"The universe is a book; nature is its language."
Maimonides
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"The natural world is a mirror of spiritual truths."
Maimonides
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"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"God, or Nature, does nothing from design or end."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"God does not act from will or design, but from necessity."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Nature acts by the shortest paths; if the truth were not simple, it would not be nature."
Descartes, René
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"Nature itself is the greatest teacher, if we but listen with open ears."
Avicenna