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" I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. "

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" The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. "

William Bartram

" Everything in excess is opposed to nature. "

" Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. "

" I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm. "

" It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

" You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac. "

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "

" Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. "

" I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful. "

" Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. "

" Nature is wont to hide herself. "

" In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. "

" Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. "

" The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it. "

" Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly. "

" Envy is human nature. "

Monica Bellucci

" Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. "

" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "

Michael Faraday

" Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. "

" I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. "

Devon Werkheiser

" Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. "

" You can't just let nature run wild. "

" Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. "

" Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. "

" The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. "

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. "

William C. Bryant

" Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. "

Luigi Pirandello