Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Havhamess, Alan

Best Quotes about Nature

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Meynell, Alice

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Buffett, Warren

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muir, John

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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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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

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

H. G. Wells

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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 breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 uses as little as possible of anything.

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

Socrates

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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.

Carson, Rachel

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

Miller, Henry

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

France, Anatole

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Carswell, James

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard