Chaos Quote by Ovid

There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.

— Laozi

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

— Susan Sontag

Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and…

— Thomas Berry

“And whilst everyone believed that the universe began with Chaos, it did not. It began with Vacuos[Void], his granddaddy.But before Vacuos died, or just…

— Nicholas Chong

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with…

— Lorrie Moore

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was…

— Alan Bradley

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

— Henry B Adams

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of…

— Alan Watts

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth,…

— Plato

Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies…

— Theophrastus

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren…

— Arthur Golden

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

— Henry Adams