“Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Whenever I get fed up with life
“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.”
— Andrea Arnold
Author: Andrea Arnold
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I perhaps owe having become a painter
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
— Claude Monet
Author: Claude Monet
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Sensual love deceives one as to the
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”
— Franz Kafka
Author: Franz Kafka
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Literature is the expression of a feeling
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
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Earth laughs in flowers.
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For every person who has ever lived
“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.”
— Pam Brown
Author: Pam Brown
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their
“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”
— Richard Dawkins
Author: Richard Dawkins
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
— Ansel Adams
Author: Ansel Adams
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In every walk with nature one receives
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir
Author: John Muir
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Money has never made man happy, nor
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: nature
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