#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. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

The earth has music for those who listen. ↗

— George Santayana

#music

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #mankind #philosophy #nature

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#another #egg #hen #making #only

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older. ↗

— Willard Scott

#nature #older #you

For greed all nature is too little. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#little #nature #too

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#his #just #own #painter #personal

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#books #brooks #everything #exempt #finds

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#battlefield #business #come #die #health

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#i #nature #outside #predominantly #rarely