I am two with nature. Read Summary
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Read Summary
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! Read Summary
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. Read Summary
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. Read Summary
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. Read Summary
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Read Summary
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Read Summary
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Read Summary
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Read Summary
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. Read Summary
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Read Summary
You can't just let nature run wild. Read Summary
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. Read Summary
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Read Summary
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Read Summary
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Read Summary
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. Read Summary
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. Read Summary
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Read Summary