Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

France, Anatole

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

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

Meynell, Alice

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Stern, Gil

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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.

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

Muir, John

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Keats, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Blake, William

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

H. G. Wells

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

Socrates

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Marx, Karl

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

Kalan

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Horace

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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 masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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 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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Cowper, William

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

Miller, Henry

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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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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Havhamess, Alan

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

Jane Austen

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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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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Sade, Marquis De

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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