Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

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.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.