Book Quote by Elif Batuman

“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.”

— Aldous Huxley

“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid. Lavish. Inspirational.…

— Saul Bellow

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable…

— Ryel Kestenbaum

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be…

— Isaac Newton

“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...”

— Naoki Higashida

“I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push…

— Henry James

“Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.”

— John Smelcer

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Sometimes nature cannot stand us. And Sometimes we cannot stand our own nature.”

— Anonymous

“Nature's a funny old thing, it does whatever it pleases. He had always been a little afraid of it. He tiptoed into forests, speaking…

— Pascal Garnier