Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

- Bernoulli

Best Quotes about Nature

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Einstein, Albert

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Thomson, James

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Kalan

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Ruskin, John

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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.

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Stern, Gil

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Vico, Giambattista

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

France, Anatole

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mackay, Eric

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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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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Muir, John

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

Cowper, William

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Wilde, Oscar

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De