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Quotes About Existence

Nature is not anthropomorphic.
~ Laozi
To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.
~ Ziggy Marley
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
~ Louis Agassiz
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
~ Louis Pasteur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
~ Lucretius
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
There is no other reality than nature.
~ Marco Casagrande
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
~ Stevie Smith
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.
~ Tenzin Palmo
To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
~ Thomas Hobbes
There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
~ Wallace Stevens
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
~ William James
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!
~ William Wordsworth
Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.
~ John Donne
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
What a piece of work is man!
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas