Motivational Quotes

Nature

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.

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Socrates

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

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Burbank, Luther

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

Muir, John

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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.

Walt Whitman

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kalan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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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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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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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Child, Lydia M.

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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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 not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Mackay, Eric

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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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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 principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Chomsky, Noam

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Carswell, James

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

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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

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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.

Seneca