#nature

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#art #better #forms #genuine #greatest

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#evil #life #nature #beauty

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#artists #city #does #else #feel

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#communicate #communities #community #enable #focusing

It's just a part of our nature to hope. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#just #nature #our #part

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemical #experiments #i #nature #processes

These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house. I often go into the woods, or walk through the fields and hills nearby, when I need inspiration, or to work out a plot problem, or come up with an idea. I think better on my feet, particularly when there is beautiful countryside around me and a dog at my side. When I was younger and lived in big cities, I had special places there too. There's magic everywhere, if you look. ↗

— Terri Windling

#get-away #inspirational #nature #rural-setting #urban-setting

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#asks #does #fee #go #good

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#fantasy #how #i #much #nature