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Nature Quotes by Annie Dillard
- If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
- Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer…
- We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not…
- As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque…
- It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge…
- I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
- There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go…
- How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the…
- Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.
- Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle