Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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.)

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.

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

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

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

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

Meynell, Alice

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

13.

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

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Muir, John

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

18.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Addison, Joseph

19.

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

H. G. Wells

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Stern, Gil

25.

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

26.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Pirandello, Luigi

30.

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

Diderot, Denis

31.

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

32.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

33.

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

Mackay, Eric

34.

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

35.

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

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

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

Miller, Henry

39.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

40.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Jane Austen

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

49.

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

50.

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