Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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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

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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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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 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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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Ruskin, John

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Thomson, James

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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 a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Cowper, William

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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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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Stern, Gil

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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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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

Meynell, Alice

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

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

Burbank, Luther

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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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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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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Barton, Bruce

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

Klee, Paul

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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