“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.”
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“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”
“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.”
“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.”
“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
“There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.”
“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.”
“Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.”
“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.”
“In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.”
“The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.”
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.”
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”
“Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.”
“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.”
“The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.”
“Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”
“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.”
“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”