"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."
"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
"Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them."
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you."
"We must return to nature and nature's god."
"I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment."
"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."
"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature."
"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."
"Painting is by nature a luminous language."
"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."