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Quotes About Mystery

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
~ William Shakespeare
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
~ Richard Matheson
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
~ Seneca the Younger
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
~ Stephen Gardiner
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert Schweitzer
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.
~ John Ruskin
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
~ Mary Oliver
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
~ Ansel Adams
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Effective magic is transcendent nature.
~ George Eliot
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
~ Terence McKenna
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~ Edmund Burke
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
~ Carl Maria von Weber
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
~ Barbara Hurd
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
~ Alan Watts
Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
~ Jonas Salk
Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
~ Janet Morris
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
~ Albert Einstein
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
~ Annie Dillard
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.
~ Morris Fishbein