Quotes About Observation

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Employers know the nature of people best.

One can never study nature too much and too hard

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.

If I can't sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf.