John Dewey Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

  John Dewey

  Nature, Animal, Purpose

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

• Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

  John Dewey

  Death, Nature, Mean

• Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

  John Dewey

  Dream, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.294, SIU Press

• Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

  John Dewey

  Mother, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.34, SIU Press

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