They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
There comes an age, when you want a nature instead of the city and crowds. Parisian statues are awesome, but its nature is not so fascinating
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Look deep into nature and you ll understand everything better.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he is immortal; he wishes for the existence of a being who can do everything which is impossible to Nature and reason, therefore such a being exists.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ...
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
The first and fundamental law of Nature is to seek peace and follow it.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
There can be no doubt that the Anarchist Idea, denying government, is by its very nature opposed to violence, which is the essence of every authoritarian system - the mode of action of every government
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Whoever knows many things By nature is a poet.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
“If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”
You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.