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Quotes about nature

Woods, bees and cats.

5 quotes with a known source.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

Source: Walden, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" (1854)

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Source: Essays, Book II, ch. 12, "Apology for Raymond Sebond" (1580)

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Source: Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion (1788)

There is grandeur in this view of life.

Source: On the Origin of Species, final paragraph (1859)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower.

Source: "Auguries of Innocence" (c. 1803)

Quotes about nature that are usually credited to the wrong person.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Actually: First tied to Einstein in a 1994 leaflet from French beekeepers protesting cheap honey imports.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Actually: Not found in the Hippocratic writings; it appears in the 20th century.