Motivational Quotes

Nature

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.

Best Quotes about Nature

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Angelou, Maya

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Socrates

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Einstein, Albert

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

Meynell, Alice

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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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.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Klee, Paul

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

Carswell, James

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Jane Austen

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

Stern, Gil

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Horace

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Addison, Joseph

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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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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