3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
3 December 2020 Regina Spektor I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh I think there’s a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don’t have to think about it.
3 December 2020 Antonio Gaudi Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
3 December 2020 David Suzuki We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston Loki in ‘Thor’ is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I’d built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
3 December 2020 James Whistler To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
3 December 2020 Diane Ackerman Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
3 December 2020 Henri Poincare The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean Every corny thing that’s said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
