#Nature

"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."

"It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health."

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

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

"The earth has music for those who listen."

"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."

"He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars."

"There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights."

"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."

"Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it."

"When mice run, cats give chase."

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

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

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship"

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

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."