Quotes About Nature

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.