Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Nature

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

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carswell, James

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

Keillor, Garrison

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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 just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Aristotle

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Muir, John

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If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background.

Murchie, Guy

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Ruskin, John

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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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

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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 does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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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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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