nature Quotes

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.