Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Keillor, Garrison

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Kalan

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

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Horace

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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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Stern, Gil

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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Barton, Bruce

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

Carver, George Washington

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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, 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

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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 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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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Klee, Paul

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Socrates

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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Nature is wont to hide herself.