#Nature

"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know."

"If you could really see that tree over there,"Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over.""Really? But why?"asked Arthur. "It's just a tree.""No,"Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine."

"The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within."

"I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor."

"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."

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

"Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated."

"It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing."

"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality."

"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature."

"We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers."

"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."

"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster."

"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."