Nature and Elements

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside 72 over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder.