Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Baudelaire, Charles

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

H. G. Wells

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

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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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

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

France, Anatole

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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.

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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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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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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

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

Bailey, Philip 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 of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Cowper, William

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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 is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stern, Gil

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

Meynell, Alice

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

Aristotle

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Miller, Henry

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

Ruskin, John

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

Muir, John

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

Powys, Llewelyn