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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
What I’m attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they’ll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don’t need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.