- 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
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.
- Conservative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central bankers tend to be conservative by nature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
- Gatherings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020