Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

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

Kalan

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

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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 no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Diderot, Denis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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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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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Dylan, Bob

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

Vico, Giambattista

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Keillor, Garrison

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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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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 surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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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.