Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Pirandello, Luigi

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Fuseli, Henry

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Angelou, Maya

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

Muir, John

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Laing, R. D.

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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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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Powys, Llewelyn

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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

Ruskin, John

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

Stern, Gil

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Diderot, Denis

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Horace

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Klee, Paul

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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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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Carswell, James

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Kalan

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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

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