Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

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

Miller, Henry

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

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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'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 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 nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Muir, John

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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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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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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, 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 does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

H. G. Wells

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

Keillor, Garrison

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Stern, Gil

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Carver, George Washington

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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 law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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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.