Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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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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If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background.

Murchie, Guy

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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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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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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 environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Stern, Gil

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

Klee, Paul

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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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All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.

Law, William

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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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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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Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Aristotle

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Muir, John

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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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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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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis