Quotes About Nature

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

A fallow field is a sin.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds, work the land - plant some trees, maybe take up watercolor.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!

Codex Orféo is something you won't see coming at you, but it does. It's all about kindness to other species, and to one another. If we can work that out, the world will take care of herself.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren't they?" his mother went on. "We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.