Charles Darwin Quotes on Nature
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist whose work transformed the life sciences and reshaped Western thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Charles Darwin on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.”
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.”
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Attributed to Charles Darwin:
“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
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“The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.—It is a curious little world within itself; the habitable part is surrounded by a broad band of black desolate rocks, as if the wide barrier of the ocean was not sufficient to guard the precious spot.”
Letter to Caroline Darwin (18 July 1836). Nora Barlow (ed.) Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle (New York: Philosophical Library, 1946) p. 143