Ancient Quote by Eliphas Levi

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves…

— Gregory Maguire

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

— Harvey Rice

...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what…

— William Crookes

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist…

— Felix Archimede Pouchet

The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

— Joseph Campbell

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement,…

— Joseph Campbell

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Long before the Gorgon Medusa constellated within the archaic Greek world and was demonized as ugly and ultimately monstrous—with her tongue lolling between sharp…

— Joan Marler

Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.

— John O'Donohue