If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand rejoice for your soul is alive.

Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.

The fairest thing in nature a flower still has its roots in earth and manure.

If I have been of service if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action if I am at peace with myself it has been a successful day.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Those things that nature denied to human sight she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Look when you're the president there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean it's just the nature of the job.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I am a leader by default only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

The more intense the nature of a man the more readily will he find meditation and the more successfully will he practice it.

Destruction hence like creation is one of Nature's mandates.