category-Nature Quotes

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.

Samuel Butler

Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing sensations.

Paul Czanne

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman."

Whitney Chadwick

Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.

Whittaker Chambers

It is, indeed an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer, No effects.

Thomas Carlyle

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Benvenuto Cellini

I love to think of nature as having unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.

George Washington Carver

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Albert Camus

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Antonin Artaud

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to ones own nature.

Karl Georg Bchner

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Anne Bront

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E.F. Schumacher

The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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