Charles Kingsley Quotes about Nature

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You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Charles Kingsley

Nature, Children, Ocean

Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66

Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.

Charles Kingsley

Wise, Nature, Stupid

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com