Quotes About Nature

Without the Earth, the Sun would be light only, not life.

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The world began without the human race and it will end without it…. Man has never—save only when he reproduces himself—done other than cheerfully dismantle million upon million of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

I must have flowers, always and always.

The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Here I am surrounded by the things I love. I spend my time in the open, on the beach in stormy weather or when the fishing boats put out [...] In the evenings, my dear friend, there is a warm fire in my cottage, and the cosiness of a small family [...] I am now enjoying a spell of quiet, free of chores. Ideally I should like to stay in a peaceful nook like this for ever.

To gaze at flowers is to plunge into the center of the world, and through the proliferation of forms that overwhelm us there, to discover how much we belong to the world. If our eyes light up at the sight of shells, blades of grass, or clouds, it is because the eye is made of the same fabric as they are, constructed out of the same constellations of atoms; the eye is part and parcel of the same elaborate dance of forms, and driven by the same forces of the universe.

La mer chante à bouche fermée

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the near sun, felt right, somehow, in his hand. He decided to carry it down to his mother, who lay in bed, recovering. It is so easy to please a mother. Just to think of her for a moment, from a high place, and to carry that thought to her in the form of a stone.