Motivational Quotes

Nature

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Nature

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.

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Carson, Rachel

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Meynell, Alice

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

Socrates

11.

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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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Frank, Anne

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

Stern, Gil

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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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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

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

Carver, George Washington

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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

29.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

30.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

H. G. Wells

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Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Sontag, Susan

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.