Quotes About Experience

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

We must go and see for ourselves.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Study nature not books

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.