Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Nature

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Havhamess, Alan

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Meynell, Alice

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

Burbank, Luther

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 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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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Miller, Henry

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.