Nature Quotes
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One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.
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It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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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.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
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Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the showsThat for oblivion take their daily birthFrom all the fuming vanities of earth.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
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When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
