Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Kalan

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bailey, Philip James

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

15.

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

Havhamess, Alan

16.

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.

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

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

H. G. Wells

20.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

21.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Pirandello, Luigi

28.

Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

29.

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

30.

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

31.

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Laing, R. D.

32.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Cowper, William

36.

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

Carson, Rachel

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Thomson, James

44.

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

45.

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.

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.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

49.

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

50.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman