Books Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need the nature so we can be, we have plenty to learn from it. In our ignorance we continuously try to annihilate it…

— Mariana Fulger

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

— Kobo Abe

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are finite creatures...and because of this everything that is us and surrounds us is beautiful - for we do not know when our…

— G. Creighton Bradshaw

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to…

— Ralph Steadman

“Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such…

— Charlotte Selver

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second, that however…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We must return to nature and nature's god.

— Luther Burbank