Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Horace

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

Carswell, James

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Havhamess, Alan

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A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

James, P. D.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

France, Anatole

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

Muir, John

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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

Keillor, Garrison

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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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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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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 is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo