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Nature Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
- Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
- The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown;…
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
- Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a…
- And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If…
- The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural…
- Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them…
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