Into Motivation

Quotes by Carolus Linnaeus "Nature does not proceed by leaps. If a tree dies, plant another in its place". Quotes by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz "In nature there can never be two beings that are exactly alike. There is nothing uncultivated, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; there is no chaos, no confusion except in appearance". Quotes by Charles Lamb "I must confess that I am not romance-hit about nature. The earth, the sea, and sky (when all is said) is but as a house ... Read More

Quotes by John Muir "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. In God's wilderness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness". Quotes by Desmond John Morris "There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homosapiens". Quotes by Spike Milligan "God, that sun's hot," said Watson. "Then don't touch it," said McGonagall. Quotes by George Meredith "For singing ... Read More

Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed". Quotes by Alexander Pope "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, but looks through ... Read More

Quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls". Quotes by Herbert Spencer "The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship". Quotes by Alexander Smith "Nature never quite goes along with us. She is sombre at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a ... Read More

Quotes by Edmund Waller "To man, that was in the evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light". Quotes by Voltaire "Men argue, nature acts. Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills". Quotes by ... Read More

Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven "Nature has an etiquette all her own". Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher "Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into". Quotes by Walter Bagehot "Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd". Quotes by Francis Bacon "God Almighty first planned a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her". Quotes by St Augustine "All nature is good". Quotes by Apollonius of Tyana "God made the beauties of nature like ... Read More

Quotes by William Wordsworth "The holy time is quiet as a nun, Breathless with adoration. And 'tis my faith that every flower, Enjoy the air it breathes". Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft "It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature". Quotes by Walter Whitman "I could turn and live awhile with the animals...they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat ... Read More