Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Nature✕clear

One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

1886

★ 0.9

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1805

★ 1.0

Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

1995

★ 1.0

Mother Nature always bats last and she always bats 1000.

The New York Times · 2010

★ 1.0

Scientific literature

If anyone wishes to observe the works of nature, he should put his trust not in books of anatomy but in his own eyes.

175

★ 1.2

Scientific literature

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that-agent and patient at once.

Physics · 350 BC

★ 1.3

Personal journal

This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 1.3

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1918

★ 1.8

Nature writing · Autobiography and memoir

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

1928

★ 1.8

The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.

Wallace Stegner

1983

★ 1.8

Personal journal

There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there.

★ 1.8

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

1647

★ 1.9

Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things.

★ 1.9

In disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of Scriptural passage but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations. For the Holy Scripture and nature derive equally from the Godhead, the former as the dictation of the Holy Spirit and the latter as the most obedient executrix of God's orders.

Galileo Galilei

1615

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir · Religious literature

All things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

Sir Thomas Browne

1643

★ 1.9

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau) · 1851

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:6-8

686 BC

★ 2.0

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau) · 1851

★ 2.0

I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature.

★ 2.0

Religious literature

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 2.1

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