Admiring Quote by John Herschel

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious…

— Oscar Wilde

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

— Henry David Thoreau

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render…

— Paul Cezanne

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon…

— John Ruskin

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“As we grow and mature and become self--conscious, we are taught that appearances—-who we are on the outside—-aren’t nearly as important as who we…

— Amy Ellis Nutt

“Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she would compel…

— Victor Hugo

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

— Robin McKinley

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence…

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

— Blaise Pascal

“I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her…

— Isaac Marion