Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Havhamess, Alan

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

France, Anatole

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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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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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 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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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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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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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Kalan

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Miller, Henry

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

H. G. Wells

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

Buffett, Warren

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Burbank, Luther

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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 law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Jane Austen

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Frank, Anne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth