Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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.

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

Cowper, William

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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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.)

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kalan

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

Stern, Gil

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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

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Muir, John

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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 never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Horace

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

H. G. Wells

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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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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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

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

Socrates

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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 always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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