Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Diderot, Denis

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carswell, James

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Socrates

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Klee, Paul

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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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 a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

H. G. Wells

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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.

Walt Whitman

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis