Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Kalan

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

Miller, Henry

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

Klee, Paul

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

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Kepler, Johannes

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Horace

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

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

Aristotle

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

Stern, Gil

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Mackay, Eric

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

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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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