Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Nature

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.)

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Carswell, James

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Vico, Giambattista

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Aristotle

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

H. G. Wells

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Keillor, Garrison

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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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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

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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Carver, George Washington

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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

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

Meynell, Alice

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

Kalan