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Nature Quotes by René Dubos
- Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
- Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
- The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots…
- Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
- The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has…
- The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
- Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols…
- As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual…
- With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time…
- Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny…
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