Motivational Quotes

Nature

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Nature

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

France, Anatole

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Havhamess, Alan

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Cowper, William

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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

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

Aristotle

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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

Kalan

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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

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Bailey, Philip James

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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

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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.)

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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

H. G. Wells

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare

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