Nature
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Nature the idea
Nature's law · daedal Earth
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
Nature personified or invoked as the universal system of creation and dissolution, whose law (ex nihilo nihil fit and its corollary) is the core of Lucretian philosophy.
Thus Nature ever by unseen bodies works.
But only Nature's aspect and her law,
Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies
Consolation to Marcia
Nature, personified as a speaker who addresses humanity about the terms of life, warning of both its wonders and its dangers.
When you have surveyed these things, you will know that it goes best with those whom Nature, because this term of life-service awaited them, has quickly received into safety.
O men ignorant of their own ills, who do not praise death as the best invention of Nature and await it—whether it shuts in happiness, or repels calamity, or sets a term to the satiety and weariness of the old man, or in its flower leads off the youthful age while better things are hoped for, or recalls childhood before its harder steps:
Nothing forbids that they perform your last rites, and that you be praised by your children;