Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Mackay, Eric

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

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Burbank, Luther

10.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Havhamess, Alan

12.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves.

Raine, Kathleen

13.

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

Stern, Gil

14.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

17.

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

18.

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

Carson, Rachel

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Horace

21.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

27.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Blake, William

28.

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

29.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

30.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

31.

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

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

Whitman, Walt

36.

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

Carswell, James

37.

Nature is not human hearted.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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

Buffett, Warren

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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.

48.

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

Miller, Henry

49.

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

Diderot, Denis

50.

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