Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Carswell, James

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

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

Tennessee Williams

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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 clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Muir, John

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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

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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 commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Aristotle

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Keats, John

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

H. G. Wells

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Stern, Gil

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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