Quotes About Nature

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

What a piece of work is a man

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.