Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Nature

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Meynell, Alice

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Burbank, Luther

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

Jane Austen

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

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

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.

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

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

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Carswell, James

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bailey, Philip James

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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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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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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Klee, Paul

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

H. G. Wells

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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Carson, Rachel

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

Keillor, Garrison

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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 has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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Nature is not human hearted.