Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Kalan

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Kalan

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Sontag, Susan

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

Buffett, Warren

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Bailey, Philip 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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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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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mackay, Eric

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

H. G. Wells

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Havhamess, Alan

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Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Fuseli, Henry

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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Stern, Gil

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Socrates

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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