Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Carswell, James

Best Quotes about Nature

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

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

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

Kalan

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Vico, Giambattista

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Aristotle

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

28.

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

Stern, Gil

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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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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Muir, John

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

Diderot, Denis

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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.

Heisenberg

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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