Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Nature

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

H. G. Wells

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

Stern, Gil

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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

15.

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Muir, John

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

23.

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

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

Socrates

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Keillor, Garrison

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

44.

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

45.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

France, Anatole

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

Klee, Paul

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