Quotes About Nature

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...

Baharda çilek yemek, evet, olur böyle ÅŸeyler yaÅŸamda, ama y?l?n çok k?sa bir bölümünde yaln?zca ve ÅŸu s?ra çok uzakta.

Biliyorsun, ÅŸakay?k çiçeÄŸi Jeannine'ndir, hatmi çiçeÄŸi Quost'a aittir, ayçiçeÄŸi de galiba biraz benim...

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Mi occorre anche una notte stellata con dei cipressi

I'm getting on well here, I've got a lovely home & I'm finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I've got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn't enough, what is?

One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

Sorrow is better than joy - and even in mirth the heart is sad - and it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasts, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Our nature is sorrowful but for those who have learnt and are learning to look at Jesus Christ, there is always reason to rejoice

mas no entanto vejo na minha obra um eco do que me impressionou, vejo que a natureza me contou algo, falou comigo, e que eu anotei isto em estenografia.

Não é tanto a língua dos pintores, mas a língua da natureza à qual é preciso dar ouvidos.

What else can one do, when we think of all the things we do not know the reason for, than go look at a field of wheat? The history of those plants is like our own; for aren't we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in what way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?

Sim, para mim, o drama da tempestade na natureza, o drama da dor na vida, são certamente os mais perfeitos. O "Paradou" é belo, mas Gethsemani é ainda mais belo

Tudo aqui é perfeitamente belo, como eu gosto. Quero dizer que aqui é a paz.