Quotes About Nature

The proper concern of natural science is not what God could do if he wished, but what he has done; that is, what happens in the world "according to the inherent causes of nature".'30 Aristotle had said that 'to know . . . is to understand the causes of things'.31 We see here, in Albertus, the first

Above all we get by in societies where the often anonymous state is there to guard against the crude selfishness of human nature.

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.

I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.

we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn't care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST'S PROVERB

Is a termite mound a construct? Beaver dam? Space ship? Of course. Were they built by naturally-evolved organisms, acting naturally? They were. So tell me how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?" I tried to keep the irritation out of my voice. "You know what I mean." "It's a meaningless question. Get your head out of the Twentieth Century.

You have a naïve understanding of evolutionary processes. There's no such thing as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe.

You can be such a reptile sometimes," she said.

Nothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they'd first thought to wonder at the heavens.

Is a termite mound a construct? Beaver dam? Spaceship? Of course. Were they built by naturally evolved organisms, acting naturally? They were. So tell me how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why

it's not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion. Though

I love other creatures almost as much as I hate people

how anything in the whole deep multiverse can ever be anything but natural?" I tried to keep the irritation out of my voice. "You know what I mean." "It's a meaningless question. Get your head out of the twentieth century.

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality .

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Human nature was becoming an assembly-line edit, Humanity itself increasingly relegated from production to product.

And from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid. Even

ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS COMING HERE. OCCASIONAL DEMONS TOO. —Ian Anderson, Catfish Rising