Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Nature

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

France, Anatole

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

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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 does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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 a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Miller, Henry

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

Diderot, Denis

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 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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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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 surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muir, John

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

Gordon, George

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

Keillor, Garrison

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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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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Havhamess, Alan

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Stern, Gil

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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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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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