There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Your nature is the Buddha.
