Quotes About Nature

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.