Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

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

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Socrates

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Muir, John

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

Carswell, James

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

Miller, Henry

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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.

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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.

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

Keillor, Garrison

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Stern, Gil

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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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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

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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Burbank, Luther

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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