Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Nature

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Ruskin, John

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

Muir, John

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Jane Austen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diderot, Denis

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Miller, Henry

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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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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

H. G. Wells

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

Burbank, Luther

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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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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Cowper, William

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset