Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

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

Sontag, Susan

Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

Gordon, George

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

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

H. G. Wells

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Stern, Gil

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Horace

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

France, Anatole

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that Icannot think of heaven and the angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Muir, John

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Kalan