…nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.


Book 5, as cited in Frank Teichmann (tr. Jon McAlice), "The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe" - Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)

Johann Gottfried Herder Quotes

…nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of...

…nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of...

…nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of...

…nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of...