August Quote by William Crookes

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness…

— Anonymous

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

— Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

— Thomas Carlyle

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

— Plotinus

“Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to…

— Shalom Arush

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user…

— Eva Figes

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual … The only words that ever…

— G.K. Chesterton