Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature is the art of God.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Nature

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Einstein, Albert

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

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Kalan

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Horace

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Havhamess, Alan

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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

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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

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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.)

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

Gordon, George

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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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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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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 does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Jane Austen

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aristotle

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

Mackay, Eric

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