Pastoral Resources

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

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?

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.