Paul Klee Quotes

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Paul Klee

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Nature
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Inside

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Green

• Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Nature
  • Period
  • Laws

• When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Nature
  • Reality

• Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Nature

• Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Running
  • Water

• For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

  

  Harry Vardon
  • Game
  • Frame Of Mind

• The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

  

  Chris Hardwick

• Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Nature
  • Mistake
  • Reduction