Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Horace

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Havhamess, Alan

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.

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

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jane Austen

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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

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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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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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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Stern, Gil

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Miller, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.

Law, William

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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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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 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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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Aristotle

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Carver, George Washington