Motivational Quotes

Nature

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

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

H. G. Wells

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

Jane Austen

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

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

Havhamess, Alan

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.

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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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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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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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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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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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 always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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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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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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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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Muir, John

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

Aristotle

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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes