Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature Quotes

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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism

Alfred Russel Wallace
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths [...] I can see much to admire in all religions [...] But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

Alfred Russel Wallace
He who has extended his inquiries into the varied phenomena of nature learns to despise no fact, however small, and to consider the most apparently insignificant and common occurrences as much in need of explanation as those of a grander and more imposing character.

Alfred Russel Wallace
The luxuriance and beauty of Tropical Nature is a well-worn theme, and there is little new to say about it. The traveler and the naturalist have combined to praise, and not unfrequently to exaggerate the charms of tropical life - its heat and light, its superb vegetable forms, its brilliant tints of flower and bird and insect.

Alfred Russel Wallace
Can any reflecting mind have a doubt that, by improving to the utmost the nobler faculties of our nature in this world, we shall be the better fitted to enter upon and enjoy whatever new state of being the future may have in store for us?

Alfred Russel Wallace
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Alfred Russel Wallace