Quotes About Nature

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Paint the essential character of things.

I've been taking a lot of time to paint and be in nature. I would say I'm happier as a person. More centered. More free.

I play the piano, paint, and go for trekking.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.