Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Man is nature’s sole mistake.
Family, nature and health all go together.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
I’m always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
If you can’t sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
