Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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.)

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

10.

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

Carswell, James

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Burbank, Luther

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

Mackay, Eric

22.

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

Pirandello, Luigi

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

H. G. Wells

25.

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

France, Anatole

26.

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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.

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.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Carver, George Washington

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Klee, Paul

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Keillor, Garrison

39.

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

Diderot, Denis

40.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Kalan

42.

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

Bailey, Philip James

43.

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

Muir, John

44.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

45.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

49.

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

50.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.