| 589 | 'Nature' is just a word invented by people [Empedocles] |
| 454 | If there are many things they must have a finite number, but there must be endless things between them [Zeno of Elea] |
| 310 | The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible [Plato] |
| 311 | The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique [Plato] |
| 1740 | Nature does nothing in vain [Aristotle] |
| 632 | Why are some things destructible and others not? [Aristotle] |
| 5085 | 'Nature' refers to two things - form and matter [Aristotle] |
| 5092 | Nature is a principle of change, so we must understand change first [Aristotle] |
| 5113 | Nothing natural is disorderly, because nature is responsible for all order [Aristotle] |
| 3556 | Stoic 'nature' is deterministic, physical and teleological [Stoic school, by Annas] |
| 5716 | Nature runs the universe by herself without the aid of gods [Lucretius] |
| 2652 | Some regard nature simply as an irrational force that imparts movement [Cicero] |
| 18456 | Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it [Porphyry] |
| 15987 | Physics only needs geometry or abstract mathematics, which can explain and demonstrate everything [Descartes] |
| 19676 | Nature is devoid of thought [Descartes, by Meillassoux] |
| 17190 | We can easily think of nature as one individual [Spinoza] |
| 15997 | We are so far from understanding the workings of natural bodies that it is pointless to even try [Locke] |
| 19429 | The principle of determination in things obtains the greatest effect with the least effort [Leibniz] |
| 22053 | The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie] |
| 22052 | Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant] |
| 8256 | Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell] |
| 3779 | Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent [Bentham] |
| 19595 | Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood [Novalis] |
| 22065 | Fichte reduces nature to a lifeless immobility [Schlegel,F on Fichte] |
| 23229 | Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything [Fichte] |
| 4347 | When man wills the natural, it is no longer natural [Hegel] |
| 22057 | Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie] |
| 22031 | Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard] |
| 4179 | The essence of nature is the will to life itself [Schopenhauer] |
| 17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |
| 15822 | The concept of physical necessity is basic to both causation, and to the concept of nature [Chisholm] |
| 17305 | I take what is fundamental to be the whole spatiotemporal manifold and its fields [Schaffer,J] |
| 7478 | Greek philosophers invented the concept of 'nature' as their special subject [Watson] |
| 22198 | Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion [Gorham] |