Nature
- Velum (botany), a morphological feature of quillworts or Isoëtes
- Cumulonimbus velum, a cloud type
- Solemya velum or Atlantic awning clam
- Agrotis velum or lycophotia molothina, a moth
- Velum or veil (mycology), one of several structures in fungi
- Velum, the locomotory and feeding organ, found in the larval veliger stage of bivalves
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“For many are the trees of God that grow
In Paradise, and various, yet unknown
To us; in such abundance lies our choice
As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched,
Still hanging incorruptible, till men
Grow up to their provision, and more hands
Help to disburden Nature of her bearth.””
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)