#nature

Non, ce n'était pas moi qui comptais, ni le monde, mais seulement l'accord et le silence qui de lui à moi faisait naître l'amour. ↗

— Albert Camus

#nature #love

Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art? ↗

— Rosamond Purcell

#nature #art

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. ↗

— Albrecht Dürer

#nature #art

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#nature #science #art

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#nature #painting #art

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature. ↗

— Martin Gayford

#hockney #variety-of-nature #art

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#nature-s-beauty #beauty

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#god #john-steinbeck #nature #outcasts #society

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#men

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#philosophy #art