Quotes About Nature

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Death is nature's way of killing you.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.