Quotes About Observation

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Study nature not books

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

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.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

The more you look, the more you will see.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

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.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.