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Quotes About Discovery

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
~ John Muir
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
~ Auguste Rodin
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
~ Frank Herbert
That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.
~ Harold Eugene Edgerton
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.
~ Nancy Newhall
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.
~ Aleister Crowley
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
~ Jean-Francois Millet
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
~ Nicolas Cage
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
~ Bill Watterson
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
~ Diane Arbus
Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.
~ Mark Nepo
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We must go and see for ourselves.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
~ Paul Bowles
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
~ Paul Gauguin
Study nature not books
~ Louis Agassiz
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
~ Harry Hill