Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature and poetry and all that is spiritual.

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.