Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kalan

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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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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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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Horace

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

Mackay, Eric

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Carswell, James

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Muir, John

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

H. G. Wells

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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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

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)