Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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.)

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

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

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.

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

Kalan

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

Muir, John

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

Carswell, James

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

Socrates

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Carver, George Washington

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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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 an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Stern, Gil

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

France, Anatole

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that Icannot think of heaven and the angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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

Klee, Paul

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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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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman

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

Horace