Nature has been described as all the animals, plants, rocks and so on and all the characteristics of the world. Looking for insightful quotes and words from nature that will help you reconnect with mother earth? Nature quotations below may remember her elegance. Many of us do believe nature has soothing powers. May these quotations encourage you to enjoy nature. Top 42 Inspiring Nature Quotes.
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1. “Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.” — Orson Welles
2. “Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” — Ambrose Bierce
3. “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” — Mary Wollstonecraft
4. “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.” — Jeremy Bentham
5. “What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.” — Jeremy Corbyn
6. “The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.” — Samuel Smiles
7. “Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.” — Annie Jump Cannon
8. “The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.” — Friedrich List
9. “There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.” — Henry David Thoreau
10. “In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.” — Benjamin Franklin
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11. “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.” — Abraham Lincoln
12. “The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare
16. “Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle
17. “Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” — Marcus Aurelius
18. “Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius
19. “When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.” — Zig Ziglar
20. “Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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21. “All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato
22. “Then not only custom but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality.” — Plato
23. “Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. I just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing for me.” — Bob Marley
24. “We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire
25. “What I call my ‘self’ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.” — C. S. Lewis
26. “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’” — Edgar Allan Poe
27. “Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is violence I do to myself.” — Albert Camus
28. “The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a break in a still dell, what poet has sung this?” — John Muir
29. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.” — John Muir
30. “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” — Leonardo da Vinci
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31. “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking
32. “It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.” — Stephen Hawking
33. “It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them” — Epictetus
34. “Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.” — Peter Drucker
35. “Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.” — Dalai Lama
36. “Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
37. “The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.” — Maria Montessori
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38. “Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.” — Isaac Newton
39. “The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?” — Jules Verne
40. “War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.” — Angelina Jolie
41. “Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.” — Orison Swett Marden
