Motivational Quotes

Nature

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

Best Quotes about Nature

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

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

Molescholte

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Twain, Mark

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Carswell, James

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

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Vico, Giambattista

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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Kepler, Johannes

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

Powys, Llewelyn

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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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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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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

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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.

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The environment is everything that isn't me.

Einstein, Albert

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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hugo, Victor

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

France, Anatole

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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Wilde, Oscar

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Stern, Gil

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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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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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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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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 always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

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

Cowper, William

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

Pirandello, Luigi

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Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Muir, John

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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 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

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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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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

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

Carver, George Washington

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Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb

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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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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