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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
Omar Khayyam
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
Lydia Maria Child
I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys. I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance: but a countryman shall be my master of revels. He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Natu
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
David Hockney
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
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.
James Whistler
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina Aguilera
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
Diablo Cody
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
Jack Herer
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
