Quotes about Nature

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

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

I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.