- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature Quotes
Nature seen through curiosity, method, and connection.
Most of these quotes come from a scientific perspective, exploring how questioning and method shape what we understand as nature rather than treating it as something purely separate from us. For quotes that turn nature into short, shareable lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Contingency
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- Nov 07, 2020
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
- Cedar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020