#nature

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#artist #nature #never #ugly

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#eyes #forces #forms #give #her

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. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#art #contemplation #divines #herself #into

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#bending #blossoms #carry #confidant #cordial

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#deep #flowers #keep #light #roots

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. ↗

— Elihu Root

#civilized #consists #fact #forces #lies

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ↗

— Alice Walker

#color #field #god #i #i think

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

#beauty #elevating #enthusiasm #i #know

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken #conditions #first #happiness #link