Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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 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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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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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

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

Horace

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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

H. G. Wells

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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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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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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

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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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

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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 surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Carswell, James

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

Socrates

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

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Muir, John

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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

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Ruskin, John

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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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.