Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aristotle

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

Muir, John

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Jane Austen

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

France, Anatole

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

James, P. D.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

16.

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

Klee, Paul

17.

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Socrates

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

H. G. Wells

27.

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

28.

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

30.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Horace

35.

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Burbank, Luther

36.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Carson, Rachel

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Carswell, James

43.

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.)

44.

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

Keillor, Garrison

45.

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.

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Scott Westerfeld

48.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish