Nature Quotes

It is a profound truth that nature does not know best; that genetical evolution is a tale of waste, makeshift, compromise, and blunder.

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation “alter” nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, […]

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

People who brandish naturalistic principles at us are usually up to mischief.

Man must go back to nature for information.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

Nature abhors a moron.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself – my disgust at her barbarity – clumsiness – darkness – bitter mockery of herself – is the most desolating.

Nature will force her way, and if you try to stifle her by drowning, she comes up, not the fairest part of her uppermost.