Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my... →
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that... →
Bruno Bauer
As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was... →
Ishmael Beah
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear
We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't... →
Emmanuelle Beart
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware... →
Joko Beck