Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Words are inadequate to describe the cold."
Genly Ai
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"Nature doesn't make exceptions for good intentions."
Ryland Grace
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"The Martian landscape is beautiful. It's also going to kill me."
Mark Watney
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"The stars look different from Mars. Everything looks different."
Mark Watney
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"The Martian landscape is beautiful. Too bad it's trying to kill me."
Mark Watney
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"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—sharp and pointed"
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The mouse understood something we never could—how to be content."
Charlie Gordon
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"No woman child of Arrakis can escape the imprint of sand in her eyes."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Water is life in the desert."
Stilgar
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"Arrakis gives and Arrakis takes away."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The spice must flow—it is the law of Arrakis."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The desert keeps its secrets."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The worm is the desert, and the desert is the worm."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences."
Liet-Kynes
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"Water is precious on Arrakis; water is life."
Liet-Kynes
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"The desert teaches patience to those who listen."
Liet-Kynes
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"To be born Harkonnen is to be born to rage."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The spice must flow."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The moor keeps its secrets well."
Stapleton
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"The sea is a wonderful place."
Vera Claythorne
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"The sea surrounding us is like a wall"
Lombard
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"The grass remembers where the wall divides it"
Shevek
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"The sea is a marvelous thing."
Lombard
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"The experiment taught me that nature cannot be forever altered"
Charlie Gordon
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"The sea will keep our secrets."
Justice Wargrave
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"The moorland has its own terrible beauty"
Dr. John Watson
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"The moor has a way of putting things into perspective."
Dr. John Watson
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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Nature teaches us about cycles and renewal"
Shevek