Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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.)

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Aristotle

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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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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 clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Muir, John

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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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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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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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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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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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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Kalan

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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 breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Stern, Gil

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

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

Klee, Paul

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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