Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Keillor, Garrison

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Cowper, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Aristotle

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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

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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 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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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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

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

France, Anatole

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

Raine, Kathleen

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Diderot, Denis

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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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 is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Picabia, Francis

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Barton, Bruce

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muir, John

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Mackay, Eric