Motivational Quotes

Nature

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Nature

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Barton, Bruce

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Ruskin, John

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.

Law, William

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that Icannot think of heaven and the angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Dylan, Bob

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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Muir, John

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Mackay, Eric

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

Gordon, George

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If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background.

Murchie, Guy

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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Meynell, Alice

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.

Heisenberg

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

Stern, Gil

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Miller, Henry

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

France, Anatole

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Kepler, Johannes

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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Buffett, Warren

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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Carson, Rachel

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Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Burbank, Luther

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Addison, Joseph

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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Sontag, Susan

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Camus, Albert

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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Hoffer, Eric