diversity of nature Quotes

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.