Motivational Quotes

Nature

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

- Meynell, Alice

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Carswell, James

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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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 law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Miller, Henry

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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

39.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Marx, Karl

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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