... We are all carried away into the distance on the same planet - we are the crew of one ship. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Without the belief that nature is subject to laws, there can be no science. Norbert Wiener
Good nature has taken care of everything so that everywhere you find something to learn. Leonardo da Vinci
Closest to the Divine in this world is nature. Astolf de Custine
The wind is the breath of nature. Kozma Prutkov
In an immoral society, all inventions that increase the power of man over nature are not only not good, but an undeniable and obvious evil. Lev Tolstoy
In undeveloped countries, it is deadly to drink water; in developed countries, it is deadly to breathe air. Jonathan Rayban
In nature, everything is connected with each other, and there is nothing accidental in it. And if a random phenomenon comes out, look for a human hand in it. Mikhail Prishvin
In nature, there are both grains and dust. William Shakespeare
In nature, nothing is wasted except nature itself. Andrey Kryzhanovsky
Time destroys false opinions, and the judgments of nature confirm. Mark Cicero
Nature has its own poetry in its time. John Keats
All the best in nature belongs to everyone together. Petronius
All living things are afraid of torment, all living things are afraid of death; know yourself not only in man, but in every living being, do not kill and do not cause suffering and death. Buddhist wisdom
In all areas of nature ... a certain regularity dominates, independent of the existence of thinking humanity. Max Planck
In his tools man has power over external nature, while for his purposes he is rather subordinate to it. Georg Hegel
The richest countries of old were those whose nature was most abundant; the richest countries today are those in which man is most active. Henry Buckle
Every thing in nature is either a cause towards you or an effect from us. Marsilio Ficino
As long as people do not listen to the sound mind of nature, they will be forced to obey either dictators or the opinion of the people. Wilhelm Schwebel
Stupid is he who is not satisfied with what happens according to the laws of nature. Epictetus
They say one swallow does not make spring; but is it really because one swallow does not make spring, that swallow that already feels spring does not fly, but wait. So it is necessary to wait then for every bud and grass, and there will be no spring. Lev Tolstoy
Grandiose things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Even in his most beautiful dreams, man cannot imagine anything more beautiful than nature. Alphonse de Lamartine
Even the smallest pleasure bestowed on us by nature is a mystery beyond the comprehension of the mind. Luc de Vauvenargues
The ideal of human nature lies in orthobiosis, i.e. in the development of man with the aim of achieving a long, active and cheerful old age, leading in the final period to the development of a feeling of saturation with life. Ilya Mechnikov
The search for goals in nature has its source in ignorance. Benedict Spinoza
He who does not love nature does not love man either, that is a bad citizen. Fedor Dostoevsky
Whoever looks at nature superficially is easily lost in the boundless "All," but whoever listens more deeply to its miracles is constantly led to God, the Lord of the world. Carl de Geer
Our callousness, our selfishness induces us to look with envy at nature, but she herself will envy us when we recover from ailments. Ralph Emerson
There is nothing more inventive than nature. Mark Cicero
But why change the processes of nature? There may be a deeper philosophy than we have ever dreamed of, a philosophy that reveals the secrets of nature, but does not change its course by penetrating into it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the most difficult tasks of our time is the problem of slowing down the process of destruction of wildlife ... Archie Carr
The main law of nature is the preservation of mankind. John Locke
Let us thank the wise nature for making the necessary easy and the heavy unnecessary. Epicurus
As long as people do not know the laws of nature, they blindly obey them, and once they know them, then the forces of nature obey people. Georgy Plekhanov
Nature will always take its toll. William Shakespeare
Nature is the house in which man lives. Dmitry Likhachev
Nature is impassive to man; she is neither an enemy nor a friend to him; it is now a convenient, now an inconvenient field for his activity. Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Nature is an eternal example of art; and the greatest and noblest thing in nature is man. Vissarion Belinsky
Nature has implanted in every good heart a noble feeling, by virtue of which it cannot be happy itself, but must seek its happiness in others. Johann Goethe
Nature has invested in man some innate instincts, such as: the feeling of hunger, sexual feeling, etc., and one of the strongest feelings of this order is the feeling of ownership. Pyotr Stolypin
Nature is always stronger than principles. David Hume
Nature is one, and there is nothing equal to her: the mother and daughter of herself, she is the Deity of the gods. Consider only her, Nature, and leave the rest to the common people. Pythagoras
Nature is, in a certain sense, the gospel, loudly proclaiming the creative power, wisdom, and all the greatness of God. And not only the heavens, but also the bowels of the earth preach the glory of God. Mikhail Lomonosov
Nature is the cause of everything, it exists by itself; it will exist and act forever... Paul Holbach
Nature, which endowed every animal with the means of subsistence, gave astronomy as an assistant and ally astrology. Johannes Kepler
Nature scoffs at the decisions and decrees of princes, emperors and monarchs, and at their request she would not change her laws one iota. Galileo Galilei
Nature does not make people, people make themselves. Merab Mamardashvili
Nature does not know a stop in its movement and executes any inactivity. Johann Goethe
Nature does not presuppose any goals for itself ... All final causes are only human inventions. Benedict Spinoza
Nature does not recognize jokes, she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right; errors and errors come from people. Johann Goethe
Patience is most reminiscent of the method by which nature creates its creations. Honore de Balzac
What is contrary to nature never leads to good. Friedrich Schiller
A person has quite enough objective reasons to strive for the conservation of wildlife. But in the end, only his love can save nature. Jean Dorst
Good taste suggested to good society that contact with nature is the very last word of science, reason, and common sense. Fedor Dostoevsky
Man does not become the master of nature until he has become the master of himself. Georg Hegel
Mankind - without ennobling it with animals and plants - will perish, become impoverished, fall into the rage of despair, like a lonely man in solitude. Andrey Platonov
The more one goes into the workings of nature, the more visible becomes the simplicity of the laws that she follows in her doings. Alexander Radishchev
