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Quotes About Experience

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.
~ Bernie Krause
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
~ Alice Walker
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
~ Primo Levi
Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.
~ Asher Brown Durand
Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
~ David Sobel
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
~ Ansel Adams
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
~ Blaise Pascal
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
~ Paul J. McAuley
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
~ David R. Brower
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
~ George Herbert Mead
My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.
~ Oscar Micheaux
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.
~ Robert Redford
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
~ Walter Kaufmann
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
~ William Shakespeare
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
~ Mark Twain
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
~ Sheryl Crow
Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.
~ Dov Davidoff
Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.
~ Peter James