Quotes About Nature

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

All things are delicately interconnected.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.