Motivational Quotes

Nature

Nature is wont to hide herself.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cowper, William

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

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Shakespeare, William

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Ann Radcliffe

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Aristotle

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Miller, Henry

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

Stern, Gil

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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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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Muir, John

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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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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

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

Socrates

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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 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

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

H. G. Wells

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

Mackay, Eric

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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 is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

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