Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
All nature wears one universal grin.
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.