Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Powys, Llewelyn

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Stern, Gil

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

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Picabia, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Horace

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

Mackay, Eric

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

France, Anatole

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Havhamess, Alan

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Cowper, William

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

Aristotle

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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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