Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Powys, Llewelyn

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Carswell, James

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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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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Laing, R. D.

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mackay, Eric

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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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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

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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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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Aristotle

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

Klee, Paul

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

Gordon, George

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

Havhamess, Alan

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All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.

Law, William

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

Socrates

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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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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld

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Nature does require her times of preservation.