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

Vico, Giambattista

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

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

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

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Carson, Rachel

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

Keillor, Garrison

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

10.

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Burbank, Luther

11.

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

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

14.

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

Miller, Henry

15.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

16.

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

Cowper, William

17.

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

Kalan

18.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Diderot, Denis

21.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Buffett, Warren

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Stern, Gil

25.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

26.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

27.

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

Bailey, Philip James

28.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Carswell, James

29.

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

30.

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

39.

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

40.

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.)

41.

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

Powys, Llewelyn

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

45.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

47.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

48.

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

Klee, Paul

49.

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

Horace

50.

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