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Charles Darwin Quotes about Nature

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Love, Life, Nature

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Inspirational, Nature, Science

Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Nature, Faces, Origin Of Species

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.133, Broadview Press

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Nature, Men, Light

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Love, Nature, Memories

Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.176, Diversion Books

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Inspirational, Nature, Science

'The Descent of Man' (1871) closing words

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

Nature, War, Animal

On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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

Inspirational, Nature, Book

Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856

We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

Nature, Animal, Agency

Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part occasionally varying in a slight degree but in many ways, with the preservation or natural selection of those variations which are beneficial to the organism under the complex and ever-varying conditions of life, transcend in an incomparable degree the contrivances and adaptations which the most fertile imagination of man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal.

Beautiful, Nature, Men

"On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects: And on the Good Effects of Intercrossing".

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Nature, Law, Interesting

Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.489, Harvard University Press

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

Nature, Flower, Smell

"The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom".

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

Nature, Ocean, Reflection

Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.

God, Nature, Science

Charles Darwin (1879). “What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle".”

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Nature, Lying, Direct

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Inspirational, Nature, Feelings

Charles Darwin (2016). “A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: the Evolution”, p.9, VM eBooks

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