Quotes About Nature

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.