Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Havhamess, Alan

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.

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.)

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

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

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Socrates

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

Carver, George Washington

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Aristotle

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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

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Vico, Giambattista

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Stern, Gil

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

Bailey, Philip James

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

H. G. Wells

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

Horace

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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.