Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Jane Austen

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

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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 just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

H. G. Wells

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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Kalan

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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