Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Jane Austen

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keillor, Garrison

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Woolf, Virginia

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Socrates

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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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Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havhamess, Alan

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