Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

Nature never breaks her own laws.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

I can't die but once.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.