- Leadership
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Counterfeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.
- Sound
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020