Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Powys, Llewelyn

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Jane Austen

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Vico, Giambattista

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Socrates

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Horace

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

Kalan

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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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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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 unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

H. G. Wells

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Chomsky, Noam

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

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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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Elizabeth Aston

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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.

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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 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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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.