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“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”

Ifs Ends Earth Joy Nature Environment Produce Cooking Environmental Permit Ecology Our Environment Natural Environment Nature And Environment World Environment Beauty Of The Earth Inspirational Environmental

Book:The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch

“Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”

Men Ends Use Literature Nature Produce Equal Extremes Mysterious

Book:Moral essays

Source: Moral essays

“Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.”

Men May Art Nature History Produce Clothes

Author:David Hume

“To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.”

Trying May Has Beens Seems Science Lying Found Process Nature Realizing Produce Theory Evolution Simplicity Complicated Biology Mechanism Simplest Physicist Clutter

Author:Francis Crick

“The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.”

Two Individual Nature Class Tree Produce Individuality Being Yourself Arrangements Assessment Two Trees

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”

Men Trying May Force Nature Answers Existence Consciousness Produce Destruction Suicide Insight Experiments Suicidal Clumsy

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.”

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

“Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.”

Children Science Mother House Nature Natural Produce Diversity Infinite Variety Partisans

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.”

May Feelings Nature Environment Effects Produce Seasons Spots Pleasant Autumn Sunny October October And Fall

Book:Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

Source: Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

“To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.”

Men Heart Art Science Death Nature Produce Weapons Greed Chemistry Machinery Plague Famine Slaughter Sloth Pestilence

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.”

Science Causes Nature Natural Results Conditions Effects Produce Passing Passings Passing Away

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.”

Law Science Order Left Nature Produce Universal Chaos Regularity Universal Laws

Book:Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770

Source: Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770

“There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.”

Whole Science Universe Nature Natural Powerful Principles Produce Negative Visible Interaction Bandits

Author:Zhuangzi

“While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.”

Mean Made Seems Able Science Nature Decision Clear Produce Disease Evidence Decided Favors Agency Texas Very Strong Investigation Fever Tick

Author:Theobald Smith