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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse1869–1954Letter to Henry Clifford (14 February 1948)
- Art
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.
Petrarch1304–1374Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1898)
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee1879–1940Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
- Art
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck1858–1947Where Is Science Going? (1932), tr. James Murphy, Epilogue, p. 217
- Science
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. This is the story of how a few of them came to be as they are.
David Attenboroughborn 1926Life on Earth (1979), Opening narration
- Animals
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 13.
As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 318
In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars of midnight.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1913), 74
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
- Money
We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Speech at The University of California, videoed by UCTV (May 2001).
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (25 May 1843)
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Animals
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
Willa Cather1873–1947Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book VII, Ch. 4
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Imagined Worlds (1997)
- Science