Learn Through Quotations

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more .”

“Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given .”

“Nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”

“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.”

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”

“Nature is the art of God.”

“Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.”

“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”

“He that followeth Nature is never out of his way.”

“He can't see the forest for the trees.”

“Nature is not human hearted.”

“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”

“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.”

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.”

“All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.”

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

“Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.”

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.”

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment.”

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”