Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

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

Horace

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

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

Hedge, Francis Herbert

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Klee, Paul

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

H. G. Wells

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Vico, Giambattista

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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Keillor, Garrison

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb, Irish

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Jane Austen

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Socrates

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

Havhamess, Alan

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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

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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 in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Sontag, Susan

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

Carver, George Washington

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Walt Whitman

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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 the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

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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.

Walt Whitman

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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.