Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Nature

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

France, Anatole

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Jane Austen

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

Aristotle

11.

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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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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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.

Seneca

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Klee, Paul

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

Stern, Gil

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

Muir, John

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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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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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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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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 not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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 understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

Ruskin, John

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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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 sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Ruskin, John

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Horace

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

H. G. Wells

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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