Nature Quotes by Charles Darwin

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

— Charles Darwin

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

— Charles Darwin

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

— Charles Darwin

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

— Charles Darwin

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

— Charles Darwin

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

— Charles Darwin

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

— Charles Darwin

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

— Charles Darwin

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress…

— Charles Darwin

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

— Charles Darwin

“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of…

— Charles Darwin

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

— Charles Darwin

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

— Charles Darwin

Daily it is forced home on the mind of the biologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable…

— Charles Darwin

“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.”

— Charles Darwin

“I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”

— Charles Darwin

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive…

— Charles Darwin

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly…

— Charles Darwin

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all…

— Charles Darwin

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only…

— Charles Darwin

He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that…

— Charles Darwin

“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy…

— Charles Darwin

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production…

— Charles Darwin

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to…

— Charles Darwin

How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared…

— Charles Darwin

“We do not steadily bear in mind how profoundly ignorant we are of the conditions of existence of every animal; nor do…

— Charles Darwin

The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that…

— Charles Darwin

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in…

— Charles Darwin

Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this…

— Charles Darwin

The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through…

— Charles Darwin

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to…

— Charles Darwin

I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is…

— Charles Darwin

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which…

— Charles Darwin

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

— Charles Darwin

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

— Charles Darwin

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

— Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,…

— Charles Darwin

On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non…

— Charles Darwin

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations…

— Charles Darwin

“The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same time, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; or, as Goethe…

— Charles Darwin