Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Pirandello, Luigi

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Mackay, Eric

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

H. G. Wells

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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

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Klee, Paul

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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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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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 uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Aristotle

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Carver, George Washington

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Miller, Henry

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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 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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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