Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Nature

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burbank, Luther

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

James, P. D.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Frank, Anne

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

Bailey, Philip James

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cowper, William

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

France, Anatole

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

Mackay, Eric

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.

Whitman, Walt

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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 goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.