Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Nature Quotes

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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

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People say, "Artist, study nature!" But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.

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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

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