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Treatise · Philosophical literature

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Ethics · 1677

★ 8.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

1807

★ 7.2

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the Lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · 1818

★ 6.9

Autobiography and memoir

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence · 1974

★ 6.9

The pebble is a perfect creature equal to itself mindful of its limits filled exactly with a pebbly meaning

Zbigniew Herbert

Pebble · 1966

★ 6.0

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 5.8

Scientific literature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

350 BC

★ 5.6

Philosophical literature

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Novum Organum · 1620

★ 5.5

Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Essay on American Scenery · 1836

★ 5.2

Nature writing · Autobiography and memoir

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

1928

★ 5.0

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 4.6

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

1125

★ 3.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding · 1690

★ 3.9

Poem · Didactic poem · Philosophical literature

A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

On the Nature of Things · 55 BC

★ 3.8

Personal journal

Human subtlety... Will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 3.8

In Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau) · 1851

★ 3.8

What a book a Devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low, & horridly cruel works of nature!

1856

★ 3.8

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1147

★ 3.7

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